This chapter covers the Empty Chair crisis, the context of events leading up to the crisis, and its impact and implications on European integration. It begins with an account of the events leading up to the crisis, which was triggered by the 1965 EEC Council meeting. The issue to be solved was...

With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, novel issues have to be considered and longstanding issues revisited, relating to hierarchy of norms and to general principles of EU law. They may be solved through an appropriate understanding of the difference between hierarchy of norms and...

The paper addresses the issue of implementation research in the XXIst Century. Research on the implementation of EU law and policies remains mainly centred upon the rather simplistic issue of the transposition of directives and framework decisions, taking as a point of departure the different...

The paper is a first critical analysis of the "Prüm Convention on deepening transfrontier cooperation, amongst others in view of combating terrorism, transfrontier crime, and illegal migration," which was signed by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Spain on 27...

The paper is a first critical analysis of the "Prüm Convention on deepening transfrontier cooperation, amongst others in view of combating terrorism, transfrontier crime, and illegal migration", which was signed by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Spain on 27...

The paper examines the possibility to keep the acquis of the Constitutional Treaty in terms of simplification of the EC-EU treaties and of rationalisation of the EU legal system if the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe were not to be ratified in the form it has been signed on 29...