Contents

Introduction: Achievements and Challenges : the European Union, its Constitutional Courts and the Perspectives after Lisbon / Ingolf Pernice
French Conseil constitutionnel : recent developments / Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère
From ultra-vires-control to constitutional-identity-review : the Lisbon judgment of the German constitutional court / Daniel Thym
The two Lisbon judgments of the Czech constitutional court / Jiři Zemánek
Lisbon before the courts : comparative perspectives / Matthias Wendel
Toward a (real) cooperative constitutionalism? New perspectives on the Italian constitutional court / Roberto Miccú
Evolutive attitude of the Bulgarian constitutional court in the EU law space / Emilia Drumeva
The Spanish constitutional court, the European law and the constitutional traditions common to the member states (art. 6.3 TEU) : Lisbon and beyond / Antonio López-Pina
Così è (se vi pare)? : Germany, Italy, and European integration after the Treaty of Lisbon / Giancinto della Cananea
Courts, people, citizens : understanding EU's constitutional democracy with the help of the Lisbon Treaty and the Lissabon-Urteil / Tom Eijsbouts
The president of the European Council / Paul Craig
The Citizens' Initiative : a source of additional legitimacy for the European Union? / Roland Bieber
European parliament and national parliaments / Mirosław Wyrzykowski
Linking multiple demoi : inter-parliamentary relations in the EU / Arthur Benz
The status of the principle of primacy in the Lisbon Treaty architecture / Stanisław Biernat
Back to the square one : the past, the present and the future of the Simmenthal mandate / Siniša Rodin
Does the Treaty of Lisbon really implement equal and non-discriminatory treatment of third-country nationals (TCN)? : the case of legally resident TCN within a member state of the Union / Ana Maria Guerra Martins
Motor or brake for European policies? : Germany's new role in the EU after the Lisbon-judgment of its federal constitutional court / Ingolf Pernice
Perspectives on constitutionalization of EU law : the issue of emerging hierarchies in the context of constitutional pluralism / Evgeni Tanchev.