EU External Relations Law

The book covers contributions from 18 authors from different countries and analyses the recent case law of the ECJ on the external competences of the European Union. It deals with the impact of EU values on its relations with the Eastern neighbouring countries. The first part focuses on the evolution and current challenges of the external actions of the European Union, while the second part presents the EU cooperation with its Eastern neighbourhood and Eurasia. The book addresses the Association Agreements with the countries of the Eastern Partnership with its Eastern neighbourhood and Eurasia, the enhanced Partnership Agreements in the Eastern neighbourhood and post-Soviet area, and the current and future contractual relations with Eurasian Economic Union and its member states.

Chapter 1. Intoroduction /Lorenzmaier).- Part A: Evolution and Current Challenges of the External Action of the Union: From Shared Competences to Shared Values.- Chapter 2. New Challenges for The Union s Treaty Making Powers and Common Values in Implementing Its Agreements (Müller-Graff).- Chapter 3. From ERTA to Singapore - and Beyond (Vedder).- Chapter 4. Exclusive and Shared Competences after the Singapore Opinion of the European Court of Justice - 2/15 Revisited (Lorenzmaier).- Chapter 5. Mixed Agreements after ECJ-Opinion 2/15 on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (Kumin).- Chapter 6. The EU-Swiss Sectoral Approach Under Pressure Not Least Because of Brexit (Tobler).- Chapter 7. The Ratification Saga of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Some Lessons for the Practice of Mixed Agreements (van Elsuwege).- Part B: EU Cooperation with its Eastern Neighborhood and Eurasia: Shared Values v. Closer/Remote Integration .- Chapter 8. Challenges of EU-Ukraine AA s Effective Implementation into the legal order of Ukraine (Petrov).- Chapter 9. Impact of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement on the Legal Order of Georgia (Gabrichidze).- Chapter 10. Principles and Values of Fair Competition in the EU and its Association Agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia (Smyrnova).- Chapter 11. The EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership: An Overview and Evaluation (Kembayev).- Chapter 12. - EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement: A New Instrument of Promoting EU s Values and General Principles of EU Law (Khvorostiankina).- Chapter 13. Pork, Peace and Principles: The Relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union (Dragneva).- Chapter 14. The EU and Russia: Old Legal Grounds for New Selected Engagement Relations (Kalinichenko).- Chapter 15. The EU and Belarus. Current and Future Contractual Relations (Karliuk).- Chapter 16. Conclusion (Lorenzmaier/Petrov).