Sovereignty and Integration. Paradoxes and Development within Europe Today

CONTENTS PART I -THEORIZING SOVEREIGNTY: THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW Sovereignty and the EU: The UK perspective and primacy clauses Paul Craig The concept of sovereignty Matthias Herdegen State sovereignty and integration under development: How to assess these notions Luboš Tichý Sovereignty and “Open Constitutional State” in the jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court Rudolf Streinz PART II - THE LIMITS OF CONFERRAL: ONSTITUTIONAL “CORE” OR NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY? Sovereignty from different perspectives Eliška Wagnerová Federal solution to the EU internal sovereignty conundrum Tomáš Dumbrovský 50 years of integration: Changes in Europe Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Constitutional limits for European integration Jiří Zemánek PART III - SOVEREIGNTY AND FURTHER INTEGRATION: PERCEPTION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES AND LISBON TREATY CEE Constitutional courts and EU law: Three contributions to the supremacy discourse Anneli Albi Sovereignty and democracy in the European Union Roland Bieber Adoption of the euro by Poland: Loss of sovereignty or its enhancement? Katarzyna Witkowska-Chrzczonowicz Updating sovereignty Ryszard Stemplowski