Editorial : no journey is a straight path

Abstract

Last year, the European Journal of Legal Studies (EJLS) celebrated its tenth anniversary at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). At a time when the EU fears and encounters erosion and disintegration, the EJLS took this anniversary as an opportunity to invite scholars from all over Europe for an intense and fruitful two-day conference on legal issues arising from the EU project. A selection of four conference papers features in this special issue. While the authors by no means underestimate the unique nature of the challenges currently facing the European project, they equally do not seem to consider that progress towards an ever-closer Union was ever meant to be straightforward.