Antonis Antoniadis is a Legal Officer at the Office of the European Ombudsman, a Lecturer in Law at Durham University and has served as the Deputy Director of the Durham European Law Institute.Robert Schütze is a Reader in Law at Durham University.Eleanor Spaventa is a Professor of Law at Durham University, Director of the Durham European Law Institute, and Professor of European Law at the College of Europe, Natolin.

These papers are the most lively written and are fully on topic. And this is not an introduction to the usual lament on unevenness of collected papers: almost all contributions are self-consistent, scholarly, well annotated and present original research.

• Introduction: the European Union and Global Emergencies Part I: The European Union and Global Emergencies: Constitutional Challenges1 The EU and Global Emergencies: Competence and Instruments Marise Cremona2 Conflicts of Competence in Responding to Global Emergencies Alan Dashwood3 Constitutional Limits to Delegated Powers Robert SchützePart II: The European Union and Global Emergencies: Thematic Challenges4 The European Union and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in its Neighbourhood: the Emergence of a New Regional Security Actor? Steven Blockmans and Ramses A Wessel5 Counter-terrorism and Fundamental Rights: Judicial Challenges and Legislative Changes after the Rulings in Kadi and PMOI Eleanor Spaventa6 The EU and Energy Security: a Critical Review of the Legal Issues Peter D Cameron7 The International Financial Crisis, Global Financial Governance and the European Union Jan Wouters, Steven Sterkx and Tim Corthaut8 Debt Crisis as a Global Emergency: the European Economic Constitution and other Greek Fables Antonis Antoniadis9 Securing Safety, Controlling Crises: Development and Misapplication of Food Law in the European Union Caoimhín MacMaoláin10 Food Safety at the WTO after Continued Suspension: a Paradigm Shift? Alessandra Arcuri11 The EU and Human Trafficking: Framing a Regional Response to a Global Emergency Holly CullenPart III: The European Union and Global Emergencies: The Perspective of the Institutions12 Common Security and Defence Policy Crisis Management Missions: an Effective Tool for EU Response to Emergencies Gilles Marhic13 The Constitutional Apparatus of the European Union: the Perspective of the European Commission Eric White14 The European Parliament and EU External Aid: Measures of Response to Emergency Situations Daniela Gauci