[Book Launch] EU Neighbourhood Law: Wider Europe and the Extended EU’s Legal Space

The rekindling of the European Union enlargement talks and Brexit require a reappraisal of the law of the EU's proximity policies. In that light, this book turns Wider Europe into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of the EU's legal space in the Union's neighbourhood. The book follows three lines of inquiry. Firstly, it reflects on the similarities and differences between internal and external integration, drawing a distinction between EU membership law and EU neighbourhood law. Secondly, it unravels the techniques for the extension of the EU's legal space across different partnerships in the Union's neighbourhood. Thirdly, it sheds light on the political covenants underlying the variety of institutional arrangements of the extended EU's legal space. The book discusses how EU neighbourhood law entails a reconfiguration of how sovereignty is exercised both in the EU and in third countries participating in the Wider Europe.

The book is available through Sciences Po's library.

About the author

Alessandro Petti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department for private Law of the University of Oslo. He has been Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, and holds a PhD from Sciences Po Law School, Paris. His main interests are in the foundations and techniques of EU law, and in the relationship between EU law and international law.

About the discussant

Paolo Palchetti is Professor of Public Law at Sorbonne Law School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He holds a PhD from the University of Milan and is the author of books and articles on various topics of international law, especially in the fields of the law of international organizations, the external relations of the European Union, international responsibility, and international dispute settlement.