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The European Union 2004–2024: Twenty Years of Legal Experience, Challenges and Growth after Unprecedented EU Enlargement

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The European Union 2004–2024: Twenty Years of Legal Experience, Challenges and Growth after Unprecedented EU Enlargement

Author: Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė; Haroldas Šinkūnas
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
ISBN: 9789462657199
Published In: January 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This edited volume is a comprehensive and extensive analysis of key legal developments of the EU and its Member States during the two-decade period of the largest EU enlargement spanning 2004-2024, with insights on the EU’s future. The accession of ten countries (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) was an unprecedented event in its scale and its long-lasting effects on security, stability and prosperity in Europe. Today’s EU is the result of not only how Member States have benefitted from opportunities but also how they have responded to crises.

Part I emphasizes the EU as a peace-orientated integration through (the rule of) law. Part II reveals EU identity as a value-based legal entity and EU membership as a constitutional value among other aspects such as accession treaties and the experience of particular States (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland) with some historical discourse. Part III explores different aspects of European integration, such as principles of effectiveness and proportionality, issues of external relations, common foreign and security policy and the rule of law, jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice and EU law-affected developments in national criminal law, civil law and procedure. Part IV addresses crucial issues pending for the Union in the nearest future, mainly further EU enlargement with a focus on Ukraine’s accession (and the related issue of seeking justice) as well as the topics of the relation between EU law and national law and EU future reform.

The book is a source of knowledge and inspiration for researchers and practitioners in the field of EU law and should also be useful for anyone interested in EU law, EU membership, and EU law-affected fields of domestic law and further European integration.

Introduction

The European Union as a Peace-Orientated Integration Through (the Rule of) Law and EU Membership in a Shifting International Landscape: An Introduction

Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė, Haroldas Šinkūnas

European Union Membership and Values

From the Union of Lublin to the European Union—The Common Path of Poland and Lithuania in the Process of Integration Through Law

Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz, Wojciech Sz. Staszewski

Membership in the European Union as a Constitutional Value and Obligation

Tomas Davulis

Values of the European Union in the Face of Crises: Protected, Challenged, Modified?

Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė, Haroldas Šinkūnas

The Legal Framework of the EU’s Enlargement Under the Magnifying Glass: The 2003 Accession Treaty Before the EU Courts

Saulius Lukas Kalėda

Europeanization of National Constitutional Identity: 20 Years of Latvia in the European Union

Jānis Pleps, Kalvis Engīzers, Viktorija Soņeca

European Integration: A Closer Look into Several Areas

Impact of the Interpretation of the Principle of Effectiveness in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on National Case Law

Danguolė Bublienė

Hearing of a Child as a Reflection of the Influence of European Union Law on Polish Civil Procedural Law

Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska, Aleksandra Klich

Amendments in the Legal Acts Dealing with Criminal Offences in Lithuania: Impact and Insights for the Future

Ligita Gasparėnienė, Rita Remeikienė

Application of the Principle of Proportionality: Criminal Law Aspects in the Case Law of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania and the Court of Justice of the European Union

Gintaras Goda, Lina Beliūnienė

Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Principle of Rule of Law

Irmantas Jarukaitis

Development and Challenges of the European Union’s External Relations

Stefan Kadelbach

The Impact of the Judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Protection of the Rule of Law During Constitutional Crisis in Poland

Ewa Michałkiewicz-Kądziela

Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union and by Lithuanian Courts

Rimvydas Norkus

Development of Criminal Law in Latvia in the Last 20 Years—The Impact and Expression of EU Law

Kristīne Strada-Rozenberga, Ārija Meikališa, Jānis Rozenbergs

The Future of the European Union: Thinking Ahead