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A new Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and Justice
A new Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and Justice

Author(s): Miguel Poiares Maduro
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Centrum Europejskie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Summary/Abstract: This article provides a democratic explanation for the crisis and the EU’s failure to successfully address it so far. It argues that the solution to the crisis and the future of EU governance must start with a renewed justification of the project of European integration, which must be founded on its democratic and justice-enhancing potential. It criticises two mainstream models of governance for the Euro area and explains the advantages and political viability of an alternative model based on a new EU budget, new EU policies, more EU politics and a more effective and legitimate political authority. The financial solidarity necessary for any successful model of governance of the EU must be detached from transfers between states and related, instead, to the wealth generated by the process of economic integration.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 111-140
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English