Abstract
"Legal and Political Framework of the EU" maps tensions between legal and political dimensions of European integration. The first part of the book analyses the legal basis of the EU, its institutions, the judicial system and the Europeanization of the Member States.
The second part explains the economic and socio-political dimensions of the European integration - the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital, including the euro area project and its crisis. The book reflects upon consequences of Brexit as well as the increasing assertiveness of individual Member States and their growing tendency to reject the EU's ever-increasing de facto impact on their national policies.
Furthermore, the monograph focuses on the limits of the legal-technocratic approach to European integration and the EU's ability to adapt to internal and external "black swans" of the European integration, such as the crisis of economic governance in the EU, migration crisis and crisis of liberal democracy in some member states. States.
The fifth edition has been substantially amended and expanded (approx. 40% of the text is new) in order to reflect both new EU legislation and jurisprudence as well as deeper structural changes of the European integration and their theoretical reflection.