European Union Treaties: A Commentary

This is the new English edition of a Commentary on the basic European Treaties which has already been very successfully published in five earlier editions in German.

It comprises concise article-by-article commentaries on the most recent versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, supplemented by the Charter of Fundamental Rights (including the comments of the European Convention's Presidency) and the Treaty Protocols.

The authors, all of them specialists on European law, provide a compact overview of the European primary law and also refer to the relevant secondary law. Each commentary contains an introduction to the particular legal area at issue and gives particular importance to the current case law of the European Court of Justice.

In this book the Treaties are analysed article-by-article consistently using a common systematic, beginning with the norm's text, a list of specific literature, and followed by an overview and a concise analysis of the norm. Focus is laid on the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union. 

The Commentary caters for the  needs of both beginners in the field of European law and more experienced practitioners in need of some kind of reassurance.