Highs and Lows of European Integration: Sixty Years After the Treaty of Rome

Chapter 1 The Current Crisis of the European Union, its Origins and Consequences.- Part I The External Dimension of the European Union: European Development Aid, Enlargement Process in the Balkans, and the External Sanctions System.- Chapter 2 At the Origins of European Foreign Policy: European Exceptionalism and the Case of Development Aid.- Chapter 3 From Enlargement Perspective to "Waiting for Godot"? Has the EU Lost its Transformative Power in the Balkans?.- Chapter 4 The Challenges of a Sanctions Machine: Some Reflections on the Legal Issues of EU Targeted Restrictive Measures in the Field of Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP).- Part II Institutional Change in the EU: the Rule of Law Crisis and Differentiated Integration as a Possible Solution.- Chapter 5 The Multi-Level Rule of Law System of the European Union: Eked out, Contested, Still Unassured,- Chapter 6 "United in Diversity"? Differentiated Integration in an Ever Diverse European Union.-Part III Populism and Nationalism in the EU: the Role of Institutions and Civil Society, Tensions in Central and Eastern Europe and Brexit.- Chapter 7 All Quiet on the Brexit Front? UK Civil Society Before and After the UK's Referendum on Membership of the EU.- Chapter 8 Populism, EU Institutions and Civil Society.- Chapter 9.- The Crisis, Economic Patriotism in Central Europe and EU Law.- Part IV.-Between Economic Divide and Social Cohesion: Features that Bond the EU Together and Centrifugal Forces.- Chapter 10 Addressing the Core-Periphery Imbalances in Europe: Resource Misallocation and Expansionary Fiscal Policies.- Chapter 11 TARGET 2: Understanding the Glue that Keeps the Euro Together.- Chapter 12 The Social Dimension: The Missing Glue of European Integration?.- Chapter 13 More or Less "Social Europe"? The Challenges of European Social Policy After the Recent Economic and Financial Crisis.- Chapter 14. Conclusions