Current issues in EU law: the neighborhood, enlargement and beyond

The extension of the EU’s Social Security Regulation in EU association agreements is examined as a case study. Additional techniques for calibrating proximity to the EU’s legal order will be discussed such as the provisions on (lack of) direct effect in the law of EU association agreements. Subsequently, the workshop focuses on the EU enlargement and the EU initiatives factoring enlargement in its different policies. In that light, internal and external rights and obligations related to EU membership will be discussed. 
The workshop concludes with a roundtable on the current challenges faced by the EU and on the place of law in mediating and addressing these challenges. The themes discussed include the legal and material interdependences in the EU neighborhood, EU values in the enlargement process, institutional deadlocks in EU decision-making, and new international alliances in a fragmented geopolitical scenario.

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