Europe's Future: Decoupling and Reforming
Cambridge University Press, 3/14/2019
EAN 9781108484510, ISBN10: 1108484514
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Sergio Fabbrini proposes a way out of the EU's crises, which have triggered an unprecedented cleavage between 'sovereignist' and 'Europeanist' forces. The intergovernmental governance of the multiple crises of the past decade has led to a division on the very rationale of Europe's integration project. Sovereignism (the expression of nationalistic and populist forces) has demanded more decision-making autonomy for the EU member states, although Europeanism has struggled to make an effective case against this challenge. Fabbrini proposes a new perspective to release the EU from this predicament, involving the decoupling and reforming of the EU: on the one hand, the economic community of the single market (consisting of the current member states of the EU and of others interested in joining or re-joining it); and on the other, the political union (largely based on the eurozone reformed according to an original model of the federal union).
Introduction
multiple crises and European governance
1. Supranational and intergovernmental governance
2. Intergovernmental governance and its implications
3. Sovereignist challenges and the political union
4. From Statist to federal political union
5. The future of Europe as constitutional decoupling.