SCENARIOS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

• Main Author: PAUL-IULIAN NEDELCU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2013-05-01
• Series: Challenges of the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: federalism; European Union; federal states; personalist thinking; regionalism
• Online Access: http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2013_articles/index.php?dir=1_Juridical_Sciences%2F&download=cks_2013_law_art_067.pdf

This work has as purpose to argumentatively identify the future evolution of the European construction, identifying a potential scenario which would settle the current contradiction within the European Union, namely the existence of a true “economic federation” and of only a “political quasi-confederation” , being notorious the fact that in Europe, federalism is mainly known as a specific solution of power assignment between the institutions of a central power and those of the member states (for federal states) or as a potential model of transnational integration (for the European Union) and even for regionalism within certain states (Spain, Italy, France). It shall be tried the decryption of the philosophical and legal base of federalism as a doctrine able to provide a solution of state’s organisation in the conditions of the European integration.