Tracing an Unfinished Arc
Gaps, Challenges and Digital Transformations in EU Administration
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This study examines the development of the European Administrative Space through cooperation understood both as a constitutional principle and as a system of everyday interauthority relations. It argues that EU law is implemented through a multi-level, networked administrative structure combining direct and indirect forms of public administration, in which composite administrative procedures play a central role. Using a theoretical and doctrinal methodology, the article analyses the structural features of these procedures and identifies persistent gaps in legal remedies that pose risks to the rule of law. Particular attention is paid to the impact of digitalisation, showing how interoperability and automation simultaneously enhance administrative efficiency while introducing new forms of procedural uncertainty. The study presents European administrative cooperation as an evolving but still incomplete legal and institutional Framework.
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