Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties, Instruments and Legislation
- Table of Equivalents
- Electronic Working Paper Series
- 1 European Integration and the Treaty on European Union
- 2 The EU Institutions
- 3 Union Law-making
- 4 The EU Judicial Order
- 5 The Authority of EU Law
- 6 Fundamental Rights
- 7 Rights and Remedies in National Courts
- 8 Infringement Proceedings
- 9 Governance
- 10 Judicial Review
- 11 EU citizenship
- 12 EU Law and Non-EU Nationals
- 13 Equal Opportunities Law and Policy
- 14 EU Criminal Law
- 15 External Relations
- 16 The Internal Market
- 17 Economic and Monetary Union
- 18 The Free Movement of Goods
- 19 The Free Movement of Services
- 20 The Pursuit of an Occupation in Another Member State
- 21 Trade Restrictions and Public Goods
- 22 EU Competition Law: Function and Enforcement
- 23 Antitrust and Monopolies
- 24 State Regulation and EU Competition Law
- Index
1 - European Integration and the Treaty on European Union
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties, Instruments and Legislation
- Table of Equivalents
- Electronic Working Paper Series
- 1 European Integration and the Treaty on European Union
- 2 The EU Institutions
- 3 Union Law-making
- 4 The EU Judicial Order
- 5 The Authority of EU Law
- 6 Fundamental Rights
- 7 Rights and Remedies in National Courts
- 8 Infringement Proceedings
- 9 Governance
- 10 Judicial Review
- 11 EU citizenship
- 12 EU Law and Non-EU Nationals
- 13 Equal Opportunities Law and Policy
- 14 EU Criminal Law
- 15 External Relations
- 16 The Internal Market
- 17 Economic and Monetary Union
- 18 The Free Movement of Goods
- 19 The Free Movement of Services
- 20 The Pursuit of an Occupation in Another Member State
- 21 Trade Restrictions and Public Goods
- 22 EU Competition Law: Function and Enforcement
- 23 Antitrust and Monopolies
- 24 State Regulation and EU Competition Law
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
This chapter sets out the central features of the European integration process, which provides the historical and political context for EU law. It also introduces some of the central concepts, ideas and developments in EU law.
Section 2 explores how all EU law is centred around an interplay between two central themes. The first is the addressing of many contemporary problems through a new form of transnational law. The second is the development of the ideals of Europe and European union. These ideals bestow a distinctive quality to the EU legal system and lay the ground for many of its debates. The European ideal conceives of Europe as the central place of progress, learning and civilisation, placing faith in humanity and her capacity to improve. Its dark side is its arrogance and its dismissal of ‘un-European’ ways of life or thought as violating these virtues. The idea of European union sets up a political community in competition with the nation-state but one, nevertheless, through which government policy is carried out.
Section 3 considers the establishment of the three Communities, the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM), by the Treaties of Paris and Rome. It sets out the central institutions: the Commission, the Parliament, the Council and the Court of Justice.
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- European Union LawCases and Materials, pp. 1 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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