16/2020 L'EUROPE UNIE /UNITED EUROPE, PARIS, No-16/2020, Print ISSN: 0248-2851, On line ISSN: 2743-4052 Linking ISSN (ISSN-L): 2743-4052, EAN: 99782749700519, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29873.49761, https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=1955

<p>16/2020 L'EUROPE UNIE /UNITED EUROPE, PARIS, No-16/2020, Print ISSN: 0248-2851, On line ISSN: 2743-4052 Linking ISSN (ISSN-L): 2743-4052, EAN: 99782749700519, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29873.49761, https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=1955</p> <p><em>L’Europe Unie</em>, no. 16/2020 (eds. Mihaela Natea, Simion Costea) assembles interdisciplinary studies spanning European law and policy, international relations, and historical sociology. Hedi Saidi examines 19th-century Tunisian social organization, authority, and power at the onset of French colonization (1880–1883). Anis Bajrektarević outlines the concept and drivers of <strong>environmental crime</strong>, arguing for urgent global legal–political action. Aurelian Olimpiu Sabău-Pop contributes two EU justice studies: the Union’s evolving instruments against <strong>organized crime</strong> and the operation of the <strong>European Arrest Warrant</strong> before Romanian courts. Aliona Balan traces <strong>European integration</strong> as a long-standing elite desideratum across Central and Eastern Europe. Dumitru Cazac evaluates <strong>Transnistria</strong> through classical statehood criteria, highlighting tensions between effectiveness and legality. A second essay by Anis H. Bajrektarević analyzes the trajectory and strategic logics of <strong>Sino–American decoupling</strong>. Finally, Nicoleta Vasilcovschi surveys <strong>historical and economic changes in Canadian education</strong> during the 19th–20th centuries to illuminate policy–development linkages. Together, the articles map security, legal, and historical dimensions of Europe’s internal transformations and its wider geopolitical environment.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> European Union; organized crime; European Arrest Warrant; environmental crime; European integration; Transnistria; statehood criteria; Sino–American relations; decoupling; colonial Tunisia; Canadian education history; international law; security studies.</p>