How Unified Is the European Union? European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pehrson, Lars (Editor), Oxelheim, Lars (Editor), Gustavsson, Sverker (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Political science.; International law.; European Economic Community literature.; Economics.; European Integration.; Political Science.; European Law.

The European project has come a long way in establishing peace, creating a common market, and expanding its borders. At the same time, diminishing popular legitimacy has spurred talk about a European Union in crisis. How far has the EU really come in fulfilling its grand visions? Is the project bare...

Table of Contents:

• An Unfinished Polity
• Towards a Common Foreign and Security Policy
• Significance of the Prohibition of Discrimination on the Grounds of Nationality
• How Free Is the Free Movement of Services?
• The Service Sector in an Increasingly Efficient Europe
• Transforming Monopolies: EU-Adjustment or Social Changes?
• Population Ageing: A Threat to European Welfare?
• How Common Is Integration Policy in Europe?
• The Emergence of Political Parties at European Level: Integration Unaccomplished.