L'ABC du droit de l'Union européenne

by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt

L’ABC du droit de l’Union européenne tient compte des modifications apportées par le traité de Lisbonne. À l’exception de certaines citations ou de passages dans lesquels le contexte historique exige d’autres sources, les articles cités sont extraits des versions consolidées des traités européens (Journal officiel de l’Union européenne C 83 du 30 mars 2010). La présente publication reflète la situation au mois de mars 2010

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

139 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

He was born in Greifswald, Germany, on 15 September 1955. He is married and has
two daughters. He studied law at the University of Hamburg (1974-1979) and
also in Hamburg he did his two years practical education
("Referendarausbildung"). At the Free University of Berlin he received in 1985
the Dr. jur. with a doctor thesis which was rewarded with the “Ernst-Reuter- Price”. Since 1987 M. Borchardt works as a Civil servant at the European
Commission in Brussels:
1987-1989: Member of the Commission’s Directorate General “Employment,
Social Affairs and Education”
1989-1990: Member of the Commission’s Legal Service, Department of
Agriculture
1990-1994: Member of the Cabinet of the German Judge at the European Court
of Justice in Luxemburg
1994-2001: Chief Administrator at the Commission’s Legal Service, State Aid
Control
2001-2004: Head of the Legal Department of Commission’s Directorate General
“Agriculture”, 2004-2008: Deputy Head of Cabinet in the Cabinet of Commissioner Mariann
Fischer Boel (Agriculture and Rural Development), 2008-2010: Head of Cabinet in the Cabinet of Commissioner Mariann Fischer
Boel (Agriculture and Rural Development)
2010-2012: Director for Direct Support, Market Management, Cross
Compliance and Promotion of Commission’s Directorate General “Agriculture”
2012-2013: Director for International affairs I of Commission’s Directorate
General “Agriculture”
Since 1 April 2013: Director "Internal Energy Market" of Commission’s
Directorate General “Energy”. Mr Borchardt is Teaching Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Bavarian
Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg, Germany (since 2001) and Guest
Professor at the University of Vienna (since 2007). He has numerous
publications in the field of EU-Law.

Reviews

[Sara]

For a full overview of my books read this year, I realised I also need to log all the books I read for my EPSO exams. Unfortunately goodreads doesn’t count ‘Comments on the Council’s Rules of Procedure’ as a book so I won’t be logging that. Maybe it’s not normal to read the whole thing from cover to cover

This is a solid overview of the foundations of the EU, and I would recommend it either as a refresher for anyone who needs to study this stuff again, or as an introduction to someone who doesn’t know anything about the EU. Also it’s freely available online which is great. However I do hope that next year I will need to spend less of my free time with books like these, and more with novels. A girl can dream

[Ivo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't give it four stars because it thrilled me but because it does exactly what it promises to do without any real frills. Could stand to be less dry but considering the subject matter, there's only so much you really can do, right.

[Ясен В.]

Can't really put a rating on this one. It could do with more examples though.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a precise copy of the style and structure of the Stalinist works of dogma. I am not familiar with the similar works of the 1933-1937 works in Germany, but most probably Borchardt knows them well and has used some elements. Unpleasant. Disturbing, but surely it pays well enough so Borchardt can sleep at ease.

Chapter one: peace. A lot of words to express the basis of peace. Yet any current generalist newspaper can tell you that any European country that does have an army has soldiers killing left and right all over the World, especially the former colonies of the said European countries. What a surprise!

Chapter two: unity and equality. Unity, yes, of course, to support the leader and his taxes. But equality? Migrants, expropriations, disproportionate delivery of state help, at the time of writing most EU countries did not allow same sex marriage.

Chapter three: fundamental rights. Not specified, but who cares? Reading the precise text of the law will reveal that the support is nil: "The EU supports XXX and it will be applied within the limits of the national law", national law that might forbid or generally restrict the access.

Chapter four: solidarity principle. That sounds good in theory and has done a lot starting with the expanding Prussia to calm the masses from revolting. Only the solidarity principle denies most of the rights from the third chapter innuendo.

And so on.

But soldiers marching in the street are so cute!

[Still Life With Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bastante claro y conciso para hacerse una idea general de la historia, el sentido y el funcionamiento de la Unión Europea. Excepto quizás en parte del tema de la legislación, pero es que es un tema tan complejo de por sí, que creo que por mucho que intente explicarse de manera sencilla, es muy difícil que resulte así.

[Ángel Núñez · Rating 3 out of 5]

me enteré

[Cristina Pascari · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very good for people with no specialist legal studies, people that wish to understand the structure and implications of the European law.
Really appreciated the examples included.