Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I: The gays' and lesbians' situation in the fifteen member states of the European Union -- Legislative framework in the Europe of 15 -- Legislation in fifteen EU member states against sexual orientation discrimination in employment: the implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC / Kees Waaldijk -- Homosexual individuals, same-sex couples and homoparental families: an analysis of French legal reality / Daniel Borrillo -- The rights of gays and lesbians in the European Union -- the Swedish experience / Hans Ytterberg -- Greece: society, law and sexual orientation / Matthaios A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES AND THE AFRICAN UNION; Civil society engagement with regional institutions; 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1 Food Systems Under Pressure: The Need to Find Safe and Sustainable Solutions to Multiple Challenges -- 2 The Structure of This Volume: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Novel Foods and Edible Insects -- 2.1 Novel Foods -- 2.2 Edible Insects -- 3 Conclusions: Prompting a Fruitful Debate on the `Food for the Future ́ -- Part I: Novel Foods: A Necessary Premise -- Novel Foods in the EU Integrated Administrative Space: An Institutional Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Regulating Novel Foods in the Internal Market -- 2.1 The Definition of Novel Foods -- 2.2 The Objectives of the Regulation of Novel Foods -- 3 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods -- 3.1 The Historical Development of the Authorisation Procedure -- 3.2 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods: The Role of the Commission and EFSA -- 3.3 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods: The Role of Comitology -- 3.4 The Union List of Authorised Novel Foods and Data Protection -- 4 The Centralisation of the Procedure and the Role of the Member States -- 4.1 Novel Food Governance in the European Space of Integrated Administration -- 4.2 The (Lack of) Tensions Within the Comitology System -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- A Peculiar Category of Novel Foods: Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries and the Regulatory Issues Involving Sustaina... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Preliminary Analysis of Two Key Concepts: Sustainable Development and Food (In)Security -- 3 How Novel Foods Regulation (EC) 258/97 Affected the Marketing of Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries: Criticalitie…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Supranationality and sovereignty in an era of increasing complexity and fragmentation / Mario Telò and Anne Weyembergh -- The implications of supranationality and legitimacy : a legal perspective / Nicolas Levrat -- Configuring the rule of law in the EU polity : between supranationality and sovereignty / Ramona Coman -- External unity, institutional complexity and structural fragmentation : the evolution of EU external competence in the AFSJ / Marise Cremona -- Externalising the policy against trafficking in human beings : when supranationality meets its limits / Chloé Brière -- Finding a path through a multi-headed interregional relationship : the EU's action vis-à-vis the ASEAN region in criminal matters / Céline Cocq -- The EU's legal framework and the limits of its external environmental regulatory influence / Marianne Dony -- Global environmental complexity and the limits of the EU's external regulatory actorness / Amandine Orsini and Loïc Cobut -- The European Union's external governance in the area of rural development : understanding the consequences / Laura Gelhaus -- Addressing the difficulty of how to represent the Euro Area/EU within the IMF / Jean-Victor Louis -- The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and global macroeconomic imbalances / László Andor and Paolo Pasimeni -- The EU's external competition policy : a hybrid approach / Hikaru Yoshizawa -- Commercial policy : the European Union and the world trade and investment order / Stephen Woolcock -- The evolution of the EU investment policy since the Lisbon Treaty : from a conservative to an innovative policy? …”

“…Written by a leading expert in the field, this book analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations (UN) as an international, global governance institution…”

“…The authors consider the process of forging the EU's constitution and the set of fundamental norms that define the institutional structure, the decision-making procedures, and the foundations of the Union's democratic legitimacy. …”