TY - BOOK AU - Borchardt,Klaus-Dieter ED - European Union. TI - The ABC of European Union law SN - 9789278405250 AV - KJE949 .B68 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Luxembourg PB - Publications Office of the European Union KW - Law KW - European Union countries N1 - "The information given in this edition is correct as at March 2010"--Note to the reader; -- From Paris to Lisbon, via Rome, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice; -- Fundamental values of the European Union; -- The 'constitution' of the European Union; -- The legal order of the EU; -- The position of union law in relation to the legal order as a whole; -- Conclusions N2 - The Lisbon Treaty entered into force on December 1, 2009, after being ratified by all 27 member states of the European Union, and introduced changes to European law and institutions. This publication, by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, examines the roots of the European project and its development as a legal order, and is a definitive reference work on the subject. The author offers insight into how the European Union is built, its broad principles and the legal order underpinning it, looking at this in relation to the national laws of the member states.--Publisher's description UR - http://bookshop.europa.eu/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/EU-Bookshop-Site/en_GB/-/EUR/ViewPDFFile-OpenPDFFile?FileName=OA8107147ENC_002.pdf&SKU=OA8107147ENC_PDF ER -