IntroductionAdam Lazowski and Steven BlockmansPART I FOUNDATIONS, COMPETENCES AND ACTORS1. Constitutional Foundations and EU Institutional Framework: Six Years of Working with Lisbon ReformAdam Lazowski and Steven Blockmans2. Competences: Codification and ContestationMonica Claes and Bruno De Witte 3. New Dynamics in EMU Decision-making in the Wake of the European Financial and Sovereign Debt CrisisKees van Duin and Fabian Amtenbrink4. National Parliaments as Guardians of the Principle of SubsidiarityAdam Cygan 5. European Agencies: What about the Institutional BalanceMichelle Everson and Ellen VosPART II DEMOCRACY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS6. The Democratic Foundations of the Union: Representative Democracy, Complementarity and the Legal Challenge of Article 11 TEUJoana Mendes 7. Transparency in the EU: Constitutional Overtones, Institutional Dynamics and the Escape Hatch of SecrecyDeirdre Curtin and Maarten Hillebrandt8.

Fundamental Rights Protection in the Legal order of the European UnionMartin Kuijer PART III: JUDICIAL ARCHITECTURE9. EU Judiciary in Need of Reform?Tamara capeta10. Judicial Review in EU law: A Post-Lisbon PerspectiveSaulius Lukas Kaleda 11. Financial Penalties for Non-execution of Judgments of the Court of JusticeAlicja Sikora12. The Court of Justice, the National Courts, and the Spirit of Cooperation: between Dichtung and WarheitMichal Bobek PART IV ENFORCEMENT OF EU LAW13. Five Decades Since Van Gend and Costa Came to Town: Primacy and Indirect Effect RevisitedAgata B. Capik14. National Procedural Autonomy: Concept, Practice and Theoretical QueriesMatej Avbelj 15.

Liability for Breach of EU Law by the Union, Member States and Individuals: Damages, Enforcement and effective Judicial ProtectionKathleen GutmanConclusionsAdam Lazowski and Steven BlockmansIndex.