Preparing the European Union for Future?

[FIDE - International Federation for European Law (Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen) - is an umbrella organization in which the national Associations for European Law in the EU countries are regular members and those in the candidate countries are associated members. The bi-annual FIDE Congresses are a forum for discussion of most recent legal issues of EU and EC law. The FIDE XXIII Congress was held in Linz, Austria on May 28-31, 2008. The title below - published by Nomos Publishers (Germany) - contains topics of discussion from the FIDE XXIII Congress. The volume also includes national reports from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom.] This Volume 1 deals with the revisions of Primary Law after the non-ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. The book contains the political and legal reactions from all member states to this failure, as well as their opinion about possible future reforms of the European Union treaties. Also available are Volume 2, titled ''The Modernisation of the European Competition Law: Initial Experiences with Regulation 1/2003: FIDE XXIII Congress Linz 2008 - Congress Publications Vol. 2'' (ISBN 978 3 8329 3345 6), and Volume 3, titled ''The New Services Directive of the European Union: Hopes and Expectations from the Angle of a (Further) Completion of the Internal Market: FIDE XXIII Congress Linz 2008 - Congress Publications Vol. 3'' (ISBN 978 3 8329 3346 3).