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.
Indre Isokaite-Valuze is an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania.
Haroldas Sinkūnas is a Professor at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania.
這本編輯過的書籍是對歐盟及其成員國在2004年至2024年這二十年間最大規模擴張期間的關鍵法律發展進行全面而深入的分析，並提供對歐盟未來的見解。十個國家（塞浦路斯、捷克共和國、愛沙尼亞、匈牙利、拉脫維亞、立陶宛、馬爾他、波蘭、斯洛伐克和斯洛文尼亞）的加入是前所未有的事件，其規模及對歐洲安全、穩定和繁榮的長期影響深遠。今天的歐盟不僅是成員國如何從機會中受益的結果，也是他們如何應對危機的反映。
第一部分強調歐盟作為一個以和平為導向的整合體，通過（法治）來實現。第二部分揭示了歐盟的身份作為一個以價值為基礎的法律實體，以及歐盟成員資格作為憲法價值的其他方面，例如加入條約和特定國家（拉脫維亞、立陶宛、波蘭）的經驗，並包含一些歷史論述。第三部分探討了歐洲整合的不同方面，例如有效性和比例原則、對外關係問題、共同外交和安全政策及法治、歐盟法院的管轄權以及受歐盟法律影響的國家刑法、民法和程序的發展。第四部分則針對聯盟在不久的將來面臨的關鍵問題，主要是進一步的歐盟擴張，重點關注烏克蘭的加入（以及尋求正義的相關問題），以及歐盟法律與國內法律的關係和歐盟未來改革的主題。
這本書是歐盟法律領域研究人員和實務工作者的知識和靈感來源，對任何對歐盟法律、歐盟成員資格以及受歐盟法律影響的國內法律和進一步歐洲整合感興趣的人也應該是有用的。
Indre Isokaite-Valuze是立陶宛維爾紐斯大學法學院的副教授。
Haroldas Sinkūnas是立陶宛維爾紐斯大學法學院的教授。
Indre Isokaite-Valuze is an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania.
Haroldas Sinkūnas is a Professor at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania.
