Integration is becoming increasingly important in law, due to the growing involvement of the legislative, executive and judicial powers at European, national, regional and local levels. This phenomenon concerns third-country nationals and EU citizens, despite the fundamentally different legal...

The current development of the EU citizenship concept is incompatible with some of the terms of enlargement, namely the policy of transition periods, outlined in the Act of Accession. While the ECJ has tried to interpret EU citizenship as a 'fundamental status', the 2003 Act of Accession...

The introduction by the recent Acts of Accession (2003 regarding the accession of ten new countries to the EU in May 2004 and 2005 regarding the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU) of the transitional periods suspending the application of the core of the free-movement right to workers...