CZUCZAI Jenö - Legal Transition in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe from a Pre-accession Dimension into a Post-accession Reality (25h)
Today, the EU enlargement issues are back again on the top of the EU most important agenda!
This seminar is, therefore, a great opportunity for the students, since it is practically a sui generis enlargement-based seminar, which means that the seminar will focus on all aspects of the so-called EU enlargement process.
The course analyzes mainly the legal, institutional and to some extent the related political, social and economical aspects of the transition process in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (including e.g. a– deep legal analysis in this respect of the comparative experiences of the Western Balkan area, Turkey and the countries of the ex-Soviet Union, with special regard to Ukraine). It focuses in particular on all the challenges of constitutional, legal and institutional nature, with special emphasis on the process of legal approximation, democratization, rule of law issues, Accession Treaty negotiations, reform of national judiciaries or the legal transitology aspects of the different crises management (e.g. regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy crisis, migration crisis or rule of law problems etc.) being addressed by the so-called EU enlargement process as well already in a pre-accession context (including aspects of ‘post-war EU accession transition’).
The seminar also undertakes a case-law-based analysis of the first experiences, learned in general from the application and implementation practice of EU laws in the new Member States after accession. Finally the seminar specifically examines the new concept of “European Political Community” and its significance in terms of legal transitiology; or the “absorption capacity” problems of any further EU enlargement (linked to the issue of whether there is any need for prior EU Treaty reforms?); or the main impacts of the Lisbon Treaty on the process of the EU enlargement process as well as on possible alternatives to accession (e.g. the relevance of the new Article 8 TEU on privileged partnership, or of the revised Article 49 TEU on the admission procedure of a new Member State, or of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its impact on pre-accession preparations as well as the envisaged accession of the EU to the ECHR and their possible impact on enlargement etc.).
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