The internal enlargement of the European Union. Analysis of the legal and political consequences for the European Union in the case of a Member State’s secession or dissolution. 2nd ed

This study’s main purpose is to determine the response that the European Union should have when faced with a secession or dissolution process by a member state in the case that the new state expresses its wish to succeed its predecessor’s state in Union member status.

The study is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to the response analysis that must be given by the European Union to the new state’s wish to succeed in the same Union member position as that held by the predecessor state. The second part analyses the internal process that the European Union must follow when a case of internal enlargement arises.

• Primary Source

Website: European Citizens' Initiative: EU Internal Enlargement http://www.euinternalenlargement.org/

ESO: Background information: The internal enlargement of the European Union and the surplus of the intermediate level of government http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-internal-enlargement-of-the-european-union-and-the-surplus-of-the-intermediate-level-of-government/

CataloniaDirect, 2.4.12; Join the debate about the EU Internal Enlargement http://www.cataloniadirect.info/2012/04/join-the-debate-about-the-eu-internal-enlargement/

ESO: Background information: EU benefits would be in doubt under independence http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eu-benefits-would-be-in-doubt-under-independence/

ESO: Background information: All eyes on Catalan electio http://www.europeansources.info/record/all-eyes-on-catalan-election/

ESO: Background information: Europe: Stretched at the seams http://www.europeansources.info/record/europe-stretched-at-the-seams/

ESO: Background information: Secessionist wave sweeps Belgium http://www.europeansources.info/record/secessionist-wave-sweeps-belgium/

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