Volume 18/2015 Warsaw 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial.................................................. 7 ARTICLES Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse Can Differentiated Integration Lead to a Federation in Europe?.............................................. 15 Agnieszka K. Cianciara Does Differentiation Lead to Disintegration? Insights from Theories of European Integration and Comparative Regionalism.............................. 39 Jan Barcz Flexible Integration as a Target System of Governance for the European Union......................................... 59 Bogdan Góralczyk Axiological Disintegration of the EU? The Case of Hungary.... 81 Anna Skolimowska The European Union as a Normative Power in International Relations. Theoretical and Empirical Challenges.............. 111 Sara Poli The European Neighbourhood Policy: Towards Differentiation without Political Conditionality?........................... 133 Agnieszka Piekutowska and Elżbieta Kużelewska Economic and Monetary Union as an Example of Differentiated Integration.............................................. 165 3
Rafał Riedel Czechs and Slovaks Approaches to the Eurozone Two Decades after the Czechoslovakian Divorce.......................... 193 Tomasz Kubin Sweden s Accession to the Euro Area and the Principle of Sincere Cooperation in the European Union................ 211 ARTICLES POLISH DEVELOPMENTS Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk and Mirosław Wróblewski Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights by Polish Courts on the Example of the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Tribunal................................................ 239 Anna Ogonowska Polish Information Policy Related to the European Union in 1989 2014............................................ 267 POLICY DOCUMENTS 4 Joint Statement of the Visegrád Group Countries, 17 December 2015........................................ 299 JUDGMENTS OF THE POLISH CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL PERTINENT TO EU MATTERS Maciej Taborowski Commentary on the Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal in Case P 4/14........................................... 305 Judgment of 11 May 2015 on the Polish Gambling Act of 19 November 2009 (File Ref. no. P 4/14) selected excerpts... 311 Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk The First Preliminary Reference of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in Case C-390/15 Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich (RPO Polish Ombudsman)............................... 327 Procedural Decision of 7 July 2015 on the request to the Court of Justice of the European Union, pursuant to Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, for a preliminary ruling (File Ref. no. K 61/13) selected excerpts......................................... 331
Wojciech Sadurski Comments on Judgements of the Constitutional Tribunal in Cases SK 54/13 and K 12/14............................. 339 Judgment of 6 October 2015 on the Polish Criminal Code of 6 June 1997 (File ref. no. SK 54/13) selected excerpts....... 343 Judgment of 7 October 2015 Act of 5 December 1996 on the Professions of Physician and Dentist (File Ref. no. K 12/14) selected excerpts......................................... 355 BOOK REVIEWS Book Reviews........................................... 369 ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRE FOR EUROPE Publications of the Centre for Europe Publishing Programme... 387 YPES Volume 19/2016 call for papers........................ 393