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In 'Market Supervision in the European Union', Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel compares and reconstructs the emergence of divergently structured supranational market supervision mechanisms in six different sectors of EU regulation (competition, financial services, chemicals, consumer law, electronic communications and energy). EU market supervision developments have been plentiful over the past decade, but have so far mainly been studied in their own sector-specific context. On the basis of an innovative cross-sector investigation, Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel identifies and conceptualises common or converging EU constitutional benchmarks underlying those sector-specific administrative design developments. Those benchmarks better allow to conceptualise, predict and restrain future EU integrated administration structures and initiatives in those and other fields of European Union law

Does Europe have a collective future, or will the coming years be marked by increasingly incoherent developments within the heterogeneous EU? There is no denying that the second decade of this century has seen a strong mood shift away from the inter-dependence and concerted actions that guided Europe's national governments since the end of World War II, and then since the fall of the Berlin Wall. What connections, if any, are there between the paroxysms of Brexit in the UK and the varying shades of populism in continental Europe? The common denominator may simply be the painful economic pressures resulting from waning global competitiveness. It is clear that the high ideals of the European project no longer exert the same political pull. The EU's dreams of progressing almost seamlessly from a trading zone to a shared political economy are not being realised. Where are the convergence policies that would exert centripetal rather than centrifugal forces? Where is the appetite for reforms leading to political union, and whatever happened to the idea of Europeans speaking with one voice? If the EU continues along its present path, the verdict of history may well be that it achieved little more than the welter of regulations needed to ensure trade flows. In geopolitical terms, Europe as a major player on the world stage may have been an illusion largely created by aggregating national statistics. ; peer-reviewed

1. Introduction : postcolonial sovereignty games -- 2. Postcolonial sovereignty : experimentation with statehood and self-determination -- 3. Late sovereignty in post-integration Europe : continuity and change in a constitutive concept -- 4. The micropolity sovereignty experience : decolonizing, but not disengaging -- 5. European Union : facilitating the OCTs in Brussels -- 6. British conceptions of state, identity, and sovereignty : shifting global contexts -- 7. Symbiotic sovereignties : the untold story of the British Overseas Territories -- 8. Sovereignty games and global finance : the Cayman Islands -- 9. Jurisdiction in dialect : sovereignty games in the British Virgin Islands -- 10. French concepts of state : nation, patrie, and the Overseas -- 11. Will the EU and the euro lead to more sovereignty? French Polynesia -- 12. Negotiating postcolonial identities in the shadow of the EU : New Caledonia -- 13. Between Europe and Africa : Mayotte -- 14. Postcolonial sovereignty games with Europe in the margins : The Netherlands, the Antilles, and Europe -- 15. Greenland projecting sovereignty - Denmark protecting sovereignty away -- 16. Conclusion : when European and Postcolonial Studies meet.

2018 has been another challenging year for human rights in Europe and globally. International human rights standards, the rule of law and international human rights institutions have come under increasing pressure. The eleventh volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights discusses the backgrounds of these developments and outlines the potential implications and possible solutions. The backsliding of democracy in Poland and Hungary, the human rights fallout from Brexit and the human rights situations in Chechnya and the Ukraine are mentioned as just a few examples. The Yearbook also includes contributions on all-time classics such as the right to freedom of expression or fair trial and tensions between security and the protection of human rights, as well as more recent developments on the rights of persons with disabilities and the rights of children to be heard in political processes. The European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners. Split into parts devoted to recent developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE as well as through reports from the field, the contributions engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe. The Yearbook helps to better understand the rich landscape of the European regional human rights system and is intended to stimulate discussions, critical thinking and further research in this field.