"Based on the papers presented at a two-day conference held in Liverpool in July 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversity of the signing of the Treaty of Rome establishing the EEC"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- The institutional framework and the institutional balance / Alan Dashwood -- A fusing Europe? Insights for EU governance / Lee Miles -- Reflections on the roles of mutual trust in EU law / Per Cramer -- The European Community's federal order of competences - a retrospective analysis / Robert Schutze -- Community competence to regulate the internal market / Derrick Wyatt -- New EU governance : the case of employment policy / Samantha Velluti -- Common foreign and security policy : looking back, thinking forward / Panos Koutrakos -- The international legal personality of the European Community and the European Union / Dominic McGoldrick -- The future of the area of freedom, security and justice / Eleanor Sharpston -- From complainant to 'Private Attorney General' : the modernisation of EU competition enforcement and private anti-trust actions before national courts / Arianna Andreangeli -- Energy : efficiency, security and the environment / Peter D. Cameron -- New frontiers in EU Labour Law : from flexicurity to flex-security / Jeff Kenner -- Fifty years of avoiding social dumping? The EU's economic and not so economic Constitution / Catherine Barnard -- Federalisation versus centralisation : tensions in fundamental rights discourse in the EU / Eleanor Spaventa -- The transformation of union citizenship / Samantha Currie -- Gender, the acquis and beyond / Fiona Beveridge -- Does the Constitutional Treaty have a future? / Vlad Constantinesco.