This book provides a discussion of some of the most pressing challenges facing EU integration: political and economic governance, constitutional status and citizenship. It does so by discussing the work of one of the most original Portuguese voices in EU studies, Francisco Lucas Pires.
In his swan song, here translated into English for the first time, Lucas Pires critically discusses the Treaty of Amsterdam, dissecting the process of its enactment, and its wider consequences for the EU. His profound, original and premonitory observations are commented on in this book by six young, prominent EU law scholars from different research areas.
The result is an original and sagacious reflection, aimed both at researchers of EU law and policymakers alike, on the victories and shortcomings of the European project, providing refreshing views on a significant but often-neglected moment in the EU's history, as well as new avenues of critical thinking for the development of European integration.
Martinho Lucas Pires is Ph.D. Candidate at Nova School of Law Lisbon, Assistant lecturer at Católica Law School Lisbon, and Counsel at DLA Piper ABBC Advogados Lisbon, Portugal. Francisco Pereira Coutinho is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at Nova School of Law Lisbon, Faculty of Law of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Provides an important and original analysis of the Treaty of Amsterdam, mixing insights from inside the negotiation process, in which the author participated, and critical legal and political reflections on its wider significance Enriches the understanding of some of the major current challenges facing the EU today, for instance governance, citizenship, and the eurozone and migrant crises Broadens the understanding of the evolution and future prospects of EU law and integration

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Martinho Lucas Pires is PhD Candidate at Nova Law School Lisbon, Assistant lecturer at Católica Law School Lisbon, and Counsel at DLA Piper ABBC Advogados Lisbon, Portugal. Francisco Pereira Coutinho is Assistant Professor and Vice-Dean at Nova Law School Lisbon, Faculty of Law of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Inhalt
Part I. Amsterdam: From the Market to the Civil Society (Francisco Lucas Pires).- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Amsterdam: From the Single Market to a European Civil Society.- Chapter 3. Amsterdam: The First Social Constitution of a Liberal Europe.- Chapter 4. Asylum Law and Policy in the European Union Before and Beyond Amsterdam.- Chapter 5. Post-face.- Part II. What Market, What Society, What Union?.- Chapter 6. Constitutionalism, Federalism and Constitutional Reforms in Francisco Lucas Pires' Thought.- Chapter 7. The EU Democratic Governance in Francisco Lucas Pires' Thought and Its Enduring Topicality.- Chapter 8. European Civil Society, Rights and Non-Europeans: Thoughts Upon Reading Amsterdam From the Market to the European Society by Francisco Lucas Pires.- Chapter 9. Francisco Lucas Pires' Views on the Economic and Monetary Union and the Single Currency: An Assessment Twenty Years Later.- Chapter 10. Asylum Policy: A Measure of the EU's Fidelity to Its History and Values.- Chapter 11. A Sisyphean Struggle: Portugal's Referendum on European integration.