European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Union without Consensus....Pages 5-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Difficult Emergence of a European People....Pages 17-31
A Nascent Transnational Civil Society....Pages 32-47
An Obdurately National Party Politics....Pages 48-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
National Governments, the European Council and Councils of Ministers: A Plurality of Sovereignties. Member State Sovereigns without an EU Sovereign....Pages 65-81
The European Commission Bureaucracy: Handling Sovereignty through the Back and Front Doors....Pages 82-98
The Empowerment of Parliaments in EU Integration: Victims or Victors?....Pages 99-114
National Courts and European Union Courts....Pages 115-130
Defending the Euro: Unity and Disunity among Europe’s Central Bankers....Pages 131-145
Territorial Flexibility....Pages 146-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Foreign and Defence Policy: The Sovereignty Obsession and The Quest for Elusive Solidarity....Pages 165-180
Economic and Monetary Disunion?....Pages 181-199
Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-)Emergence of Competitive Tensions....Pages 200-214
From Environmental Disunion towards Environmental Union?....Pages 215-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
A Contested Franco-German Duumvirate....Pages 235-251
Opt-Out: Britain’s Unsplendid Isolation....Pages 252-266
The Nordic Countries: The Causes and Consequences of Variable Geometry....Pages 267-282
Southern Europe and the ‘Trade Off’: Architects of European Disunion?....Pages 283-297
The Central and East European Countries: From Weak Latecomers to Good Citizens of the Union....Pages 298-313
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Conclusion: European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity....Pages 314-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-337