VIEWS FROM THE OUTSIDE:
The European Union between a Constitution and Parliamentary Elections

Bi-lingual volume (English-Bulgarian, 208 pages) of papers
presented at a conference on held on 2 June 2004
and organized by BECSA and the Open Society Institute – Sofia (programme)

The volume is edited by Krassimir Nikolov.

CONTENTS

Instead of a Foreword
KRASSIMIR Y. NIKOLOV, BECSA Secretary General, Jean Monnet lecturer at the New Bulgarian University

Introductory words
STEFAN POPOV, President of the Board of Trustees, Open Society Institute – Sofia

Address to conference participants
MEGLENA KUNEVA, Minister for European Affairs

A Norwegian View
The European constitution from a citizens’ perspecti
JAN ERIK GRINDHEIM

A Russian View
The European Union in 2004 between widening and deepening
YURY BORKO

An American View
Constitutions and political integration – lessons from US political development for understanding the constitutional reform of the European Union
MATTHEW GABEL

A Bulgarian summary
The European Union from the outside – lessons for a future member state
DOBRIN KANEV

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LIST OF AUTHORS

Dr. STEFAN POPOV is President of the Board of Trustees, Open Society Institute – Sofia

Ms. MEGLENA KUNEVA is Minister for European Affairs

Mr. KRASSIMIR NIKOLOV is Secretary General of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA)

Prof. Dr. JAN ERIK GRINDHEIM is Vice President of the Norwegian Society for European Studies, Jean Monnet lecturer at the Centre for European Studies, Agder University College and at the Department of Comparative Politics in the University of Bergen

Prof. Dr. YURY BORKO is Jean Monnet chair in European Integration, Head of EU Integration Department, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Russian Association for European Studies

Prof. Dr. MATTHEW GABEL is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky – USA, Co-Editor of “Journal of European Union Politics”, member of ECSA-USA

Prof. Dr. DOBRIN KANEV is Jean Monnet lecturer at the New Bulgarian University – Sofia, Secretary of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for studies and analyses

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The promotion of the book took place on 27 October 2004.

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