This book explores how the European Union is evolving as a legal order in response to existential challenges that have driven deeper integration, strengthened its institutional framework and broadened its capacity to act. Anchored in the EU’s identity as a “community of law”, the Union continues to adapt creatively within the existing Treaty framework. Structured in two parts, the book first examines the transformation of the internal market in areas such as digital regulation, industrial policy, cybersecurity and consumer pro