50 years of the European treaties : looking back and thinking forward / edited by Michael Dougan and Samantha Currie.

"Based on the papers presented at a two-day conference held in Liverpool in July 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome establishing the EEC"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The institutional framework and the institutional balance / Alan Dashwood -- A fusing Europe? Insights for EU governance / Lee Miles -- Reflections on the roles of mutual trust in EU law / Per Cramer -- The European Community's federal order of competences -- a retrospective analysis / Robert Schutze -- Community competence to regulate the internal market / Derrick Wyatt -- New EU governance : the case of employment policy / Samantha Velluti -- Common foreign and security policy : looking back, thinking forward / Panos Koutrakos -- The international legal personality of the European Community and the European Union / Dominic McGoldrick -- The future of the area of freedom, security and justice / Eleanor Sharpston -- From complainant to 'Private Attorney General' : the modernisation of EU competition enforcement and private anti-trust actions before national courts / Arianna Andreangeli -- Energy : efficiency, security and the environment / Peter D. Cameron -- New frontiers in EU Labour Law : from flexicurity to flex-security / Jeff Kenner -- Fifty years of avoiding social dumping? The EU's economic and not so economic Constitution / Catherine Barnard -- Federalisation versus centralisation : tensions in fundamental rights discourse in the EU / Eleanor Spaventa -- The transformation of union citizenship / Samantha Currie -- Gender, the acquis and beyond / Fiona Beveridge -- Does the Constitutional Treaty have a future? / Vlad Constantinesco.

These essays are based on the papers presented at a conference held in Liverpool in July 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome establishing the EEC. The collection reflects critically upon some of the EU's historic characteristics and speculates on some of the diverse challenges facing the Union in the future.