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This paper deals with the Air Traffic Management (ATM) situation in the South East Europe (SEE) countries. The current status indicates that the SEE air space users require increased capacity, higher flexibility and improved cost efficiency. On the other hand, some of these countries were in a war situation a few years ago, and now they are seeking a regional cooperation to ensure regional stability and prosperity towards their integration to the European Union. The paper starts with a description of the cooperation schemes, already in operation in the area. Then the attempt to converge the ATM of the region towards the EU Single European Sky is investigated. The FABA (Functional Airspace Block Approach), a European Union (EU) initiative, applied in the SEE is presented in detail. In the continuation, the paper reports on the definition phase of the SEE FABA initiative, which is to provide a well founded basis for the reorganisation of the SEE air space into FAB's. It is concluded that the FAB solution stemming from the EU Single European Sky policy is feasible, highly beneficial and necessary for the SEE region development.

1. The EU's socio-economic model(s) and the crisi(e)s : any perspectives? / Dagmar Schiek -- 2. The dysfunctional nature of the economic and monetary union / Philip Arestis, Giuseppe Fontana and Malcolm Sawyer -- 3. The European currency in turbulent times : austerity policy made in Brussels the only way out? / Amy Verdun -- -- 4. The contested scope of labour law requirements in public procurement : a multi-level analysis / Julia Vinterskog -- 5. From safety nets and carrots to trampolines and sticks : national use of the EU as both menace and model to help neoliberalise welfare policy / Charlotte O'Brien -- 6. Empowering consumer-citizens : changing rights or merely discourse? / Katalin Cseres and Annette Schrauwen -- 7. The politics of inclusion : comparing the contribution of civil society actors to EU legitimacy / Petra Guasti -- 8. EU internal and external social policy in times of global crisis / Rebecca Zahn -- 9. The EU as a "virtuous international actor" : human rights indicators and global governmentality / Bal Sokhi-Bulley.

This paper covers citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes in the European Union (EU) context which allow to acquire nationality of the EU member state through targeted investments. We were verifying whether the negative attitude of the EU towards the CBI schemes of member states and the ongoing war in Ukraine threaten their very existence. In order to achieve the objective, we analysed the rules on the acquisition of citizenship by naturalization as well as the relationship between nationality of the EU member states, which is still their exclusive competence and the EU citizenship status. Subsequently, we compared CBI schemes of three EU member states (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta). The results show that the EU has put pressure on member states to cancel their CBI programs because of the complex relationship between the national citizenship on the one hand and the EU citizenship and related rights enforceable across the whole EU on the other hand. This EU pressure has been further intensified following the war in Ukraine. The reason is that Russian nationals made up a significant number of CBI applicants and also because some Russian or Belarusian nationals who are supporting the war in Ukraine might have acquired EU citizenship under CBI schemes. Of the three countries we analysed, only Malta currently has a valid CBI program. Bulgaria and Cyprus abolished their CBI programs. This development indicates that the EU has gradually succeeded in eliminating the existence of CBI in the EU member states. However, it is not yet clear whether this practice of member states is contrary to the EU law. We assume that the Court of Justice of the EU will resolve this question in the ongoing infringement procedure initiated by the European Commission against Malta.

The state of the civil justice union / Burkhard Hess -- Lis pendens and jurisdiction clauses : open issues / Gilles Cuniberti -- ADR/ODR : too much optimism in the promotion of cross-border trade? / Jim Davies -- Top-level domains and ADR : what protection of consumer interests under ICANN's new gTLD program? / Cristina M Mariottini -- "Trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog" : the British approach to European civil procedure / Carla Crifò -- European procedures on debt collection : nothing or noting? : experiences and future prospects / Xandra E Kramer -- The small claims regulation : on the way to an improved european procedure / Cristian Oro Martinez -- The Nordic input on the EU's cooperation in family and succession law : exporting union law through "Nordic exceptions" / Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg -- The European certificate of succession : portrait of a new instrument in European private international law / Björn Laukemann -- "Opt-in is out and opt-out is in" : dimensions based on Nordic options and the commission's recommendation / Laura Ervo -- The crux of the matter : funding and financing collective redress mechanisms / Stefaan Voet -- Legal standing in collective redress actions for breach of EU rights : facilitating or frustrating common standards and access to justice? / Rebecca Money-Kyrle -- Abolition of exequatur, all in the name of mutual trust! / Marie Linton -- On the abolition of exequatur / Marta Requejo Isidro -- Mutual recognition as a governance strategy for civil justice / Eva Storskrubb -- Mutual recognition in civil and criminal justice : towards order and method / Maria Bergström

List of Abbreviations --International Investment Agreements and EU Law: Introduction --Protection of Investment in International Agreements and in EU law --EU Investment Agreements --IIAs between EU Member States and Third Countries --Intra-EU International Investment Agreements --Conclusion --Bibliography --Table of Cases.

Explores the European Union's legal personality, highlighting the uncertainty characterizing it given the ambiguity of treaty texts & contradictions arising from a lack of consensus on formal recognition of that personality. After showing that the treaties establishing the EU did not explicitly cite a legal personality, discussed is the implicit conferment of a legal personality to the EU in international public law via the precedent set by International Court of Justice regarding the United Nations. Limits set by international public law on the legal personality of international organizations are examined before looking at the EU's practice in international relations, which is manifest in treaty-making power & the active & passive right of legation. Given the implicit nature of the EU's legal personality, formal recognition of it is advocated. D. Edelman

AbstractThe central aim of this article is to explore whether or not the EU is an effective security actor. To assess the strengths and weaknesses of the EU, three security functions (conflict prevention, peace‐enforcement/peace‐keeping and peace‐building) and three core components of governance (co‐ordination, management and regulation) are applied. Security governance is seen as a helpful framework for studying the interactions between a diverse number of actors and for conceptualizing EU security policy‐making in a meaningful way.