Legal Constraints on EU Member States in Drafting Accession Agreements: The Case of Turkey
About this ebook
The book examines constraints on Member States stemming from three sources of EU law: Association Law, based on the existing legal framework built on the EEC-Turkey Association Agreement (Part I); EU Enlargement Law, comprised of past practice and existing EU rules on enlargement (Part II); and the foundationsof EU Constitutional Law (Part III), which constrain Member States whenever they act within the scope of Union law both as primary and secondary lawmakers. Part III reveals what the Court of Justice of the EU considers to be the essence or the ‘very foundations’ of the Union’s legal order, which it protects against encroachment. This is similar to what some constitutional courts do to protect the ‘inner unity’ or ‘basic structure’ of their constitutions.
The findings of this book can be applied to the accession of any candidate state. It also sheds light on important implications for future treaty amendments, and for identifying possible limits to differentiated integration.
About the author
Narin Idriz is a researcher and co-leader of the Global Europe project at the T.M.C. Asser Institute where she specializes in EU external relations law. Narin has Master degrees in International Human Rights Law (Essex University) and European Business Law (Leiden University). She worked as a PhD fellow at the Europa Institute of Leiden University where she defended her doctoral thesis in May 2015. Before joining the T.M.C. Asser Institute in September 2017, Narin worked as an Assistant Professor in the European Law department of Utrecht University. She is currently a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs to the Dutch government and parliament.
