ONE ENLARGEMENT IS NOT ENOUGH
South East European Debates on EU Integration

An English language volume of articles written under a regional Jean Monnet project “2007 – one enlargement is not enough” by academics from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Macedonia and Canada. The topics cover enlargement-related issues of EU law and politics and of selected community policies.

The volume is edited by Prof. Dr. Evgeny Tanchev and Krassimir Nikolov.

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The volume is the result of a joint initiative of the

BULGARIAN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY STUDIES ASSOCIATION

and the

JEAN MONNET CHAIR IN EUROPEAN LAW
at the
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY

and is financed under the

JEAN MONNET ACTION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

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CONTENTS

A Brief Introduction

Part 1.
EUROPEAN LAW AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEXT OF ENLARGEMENT

International and European Legal Standards Concerning Principles of Democratic Elections
Prof. Dr. EVGENY TANCHEV

Reflections on the Role of the European Court of Justice under the Constitution for Europe
Prof. Dr. NANETTE NEUWAHL

Judicial Activism as a Socio-Legal Process
ERDEM ILKER MUTLU

The Bulgarian “Future of Europe” Debate Revisited
KRASSIMIR Y. NIKOLOV

The Right of Public Access to European Union Documents
NIKOLAOS LYMOURIS

Part 2.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY POLICIES IN THE CONTEXT OF ENLARGEMENT

Fiscal Policy Coordination in the Light of European Union Enlargement
Prof. Dr. CONSTANTINE A. STEPHANOU

Employment Policies of the Acceding Countries with a Special Reference to Bulgaria
Prof. Dr. IRO NICOLACOPOULOU-STEPHANOU

“New Governance” in the European Union: National Competencies in the Light of the Open Method of Coordination and the Mid-Term Anxieties of the Lisbon Strategy
EVANGELOS G. MANOUVELOS

Challenges for South Eastern European Countries on their Way to Economic and Monetary Union: the Case of Romania
MIHAI SEBEA

The Balkans and European Union Accession: Reality or Illusion?
Prof. Dr. LJUBICA KOSTOVSKA

Common Foreign and Security Policy: A Political Devise with Remaining Obstacles?
ELIF UZGÖREN

Europe and the Ukrainian Presidential Election of 2004
NATHANIEL COPSEY

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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Nathaniel COPSEY
is Researcher and Doctoral Candidate at the Sussex European Institute / University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Editorial assistant of the Journal of Common Market Studies

Ljubica KOSTOVSKA
Professor, Doctor in Economics, is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, St. St. Cyril & Methodius University of Skopje, Makedonia

Nikolaos LYMOURIS
is doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, Panteion University – Athens, Greece

Evangelos G. MANOUVELOS
is doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, Panteion University – Athens, Greece

Erdem Ilker MUTLU
is doctoral candidate at the European Community Institute, Marmara University – Istanbul, Turkey

Nanette NEUWAHL
Professor, Doctor in Law, is Visiting professor at Yeditepe University – Istanbul, and guest scholar of the Turkish University Association for European Community Studies (TUNAECS), professor in European Law at the University of Montreal and outgoing President of the European Community Studies Association – Canada (ECSA-Canada)

Iro NICOLACOPOULOU-STEPHANOU
Professor, Doctor in Law, is Jean Monnet Professor in European Social Law at the Panteion University – Athens, Greece

Krassimir Y. NIKOLOV
is secretary general of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA); he teaches as Jean Monnet lecturer in European integration at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) – Sofia, and Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”

Mihai SEBEA
is Assistant Professor at the Romanian American University – Bucharest, Romania

Constantine A. STEPHANOU
Professor, Doctor in Law, is Jean Monnet professor in European Law at the Panteion University – Athens, Greece, President of the Hellenic Association of European Studies (EPEES)

Evgeny TANCHEV
Professor, Doctor in Law, is Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, Jean Monnet professor in European Law at the New Bulgarian University – Sofia, Professor in Constitutional Law at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and member of BECSA

Elif UZGÖREN
is doctoral candidate at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey