Steven Blockmans

Reconciling the deepening and widening of the European Union

The European Integration Process: A Continuum of Deepening and Widening.- A Diagnosis of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Remedies and Reforms in the Domains of Immigration, Terrorism and Security.- Widening vs. Deepening The European Union: Free Movement vs. Social Rights in the Laval Case Before The ECJ*.- Consolidating the Enlargement Agenda for South Eastern Europe.- Box of Chocolates Integration: The European Economic area and the Swiss Model Revisited.- On The European Unions Institutional Capacity to Cope with Further Enlargement.- A Flexible Future for The European Union: The way Forward or a way Out?.- Widen to Deepen? The Potential and Limits of Accession Treaties to Achieve EU Constitutional Reform.- Keynote Speech.- Report of the Discussions.

The EU constitution : the best way forward?

The Process and Impact of EU Constitution-making: Voice and Exit.- On the Power of the Word: Europes Constitutional Iconography.- The Process of Ratification and the Crisis Options: A Legal Perspective.- Referendums on the Constitutional Treaty 2004: A Citizens Voice?.- Flexibility and the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe.- The Process and Impact of EU Constitution-Making: Voice and Exit.- The Constitutional Treaty and the Nature of European Constitutionalism: The Tension between Intergovernmentalism and Constitutionalism in the European Union.- Wine-Bottling Legitimacy or EU Legitimation by a Written Constitution.- Discourse, Authority and the Making of the EU Constitution.- Transparency and Legal Instruments in the EU Constitution.- Drawing the Threads Together from Parts I and III of the EU Constitution.- La Loi Europeenne: Promise and Pretence.- Control of Executive acts: The Procedural Solution. Proportionality, State of the Art Decision-Making and Relevant Interests.- Operational Collaboration on Justice, Security and Policing in the Constitutional Framework.- Transparency in the Exercise of Power in the Constitutionalized Union: The Problem of Diffused Leadership and Responsibility.- The Democratic Life of the European Union.- The Role of Parliaments in the EU Constitutional Framework: A Partnership or Rivalry?.- Theory and Reality of Public Access to EU Information.- European Citizenship: Origin, Contents and Perspectives.- The European Ombudsman and the EU Constitution.- Expansion of Executive, Judicial and Legislative Powers.- Shared Leadership in the EU: Theory and Reality.- The Unstoppable Advance of the European Council.- The Evolution in the Role and Powers of the European Commission.- The Expanding Role of the European Parliament.- Expansion of Executive, Judicial and Legislative Powers - A Contribution to the Debate.- Some Reflections on the Expansion of Executive, Judicial and Legislative Powers.- Access to Justice and the EU Constitution.- The Workload of the EU Courts and the Citizens Right to Have Access to a Judge.- The Expanding Role of the National Courts and the EU Constitution.- The Impact of the EU Constitution on the Relationship between Strasbourg and Luxembourg.- The Expanding Jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice.- Constitutionalizing Effective Remedies: Too Much on EU Courts, Too Little on National Courts.- Some Thoughts on Access to Justice within the European Constitutional Framework.- The Impact of the EU Constitution on selected Member States and neighbouring Countries.- The Impact of the EU Constitution on the National Constitutions: Focusing on the Netherlands Constitutional Debate.- Some Points Concerning the EU Constitution from a Hungarian Perspective.- The Construction of The European Union: Recommendations from a Balkan Perspective.- The EU Constitution and Its Impact on Relations with the Russian Federation.