This book explores the exportation and application of European Union legislation beyond EU borders. It clarifies the means and instruments of the voluntary application of the EU s norms by third countries and analyses in detail the process of legislative approximation between the EU and its East European neighbours. It also assesses the extent to which the EU is successful in promoting its legal standards abroad.

The first part of the book addresses the EU s mechanisms and instruments promoting the export of its own laws and practices to other countries. Key issues include the...

This book explores the exportation and application of European Union legislation beyond EU borders. It clarifies the means and instruments of the voluntary application of the EU's norms by third countries and analyses in detail the process of legislative approximation between the EU and its East European neighbours. It also assesses the extent to which the EU is successful in promoting its legal standards abroad.

The first part of the book addresses the EU's mechanisms and instruments promoting the export of its own laws and practices to other countries. Key issues include the...

Aiming to map out the constitutional challenges deriving from the European and Eurasian integration processes and identify options for constitutional reform to ensure post-Soviet countries' effective participation in those processes, this book studies the implications of ongoing regional integration projects for the constitutional orders of post-Soviet countries affected by the processes of European and Eurasian integration. Examining the implications of regional integration for the national constitutional orders of key post-Soviet countries, it provides detailed reports on constitutional...