Research Handbook on the Law of the EU’s Internal Market
While the internal market has been at the heart of the European project
from the very beginning, it has rarely been the subject of sustained and
comprehensive scholarly examination in its entirety. In the face of
profound legal, political and policy pressures, this timely Research
Handbook reflects on the cutting-edge issues, horizontal themes and the
big questions which illuminate the shape of the internal market. It
places the law and policy of the internal market within the context of
the financial crisis and the existential questions this has raised for
future European integration.In a departure from existing literature in
the field, expert contributors approach the four freedoms as a
functional whole and identify horizontal and overarching themes that
have emerged over the years. The Research Handbook on the Law of the
EU’s Internal Market addresses six overarching themes: the reach of the
internal market, the relationship between economic and non-economic
interests, the internal market as an economic union, uniformity versus
diversity, the governance and politics of the internal market, and the
internal market in the world.This perceptive Research Handbook will be
fascinating reading for academics and students in EU law and European
studies. It will also be an invaluable resource for practitioners,
policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of the internal
market in particular and European integration in general.