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Extinderea proiectului comunitar ca dialectică a suveranităților: dimensiuni, limite, perspective
The extension of the community project as dialectics of sovereignty: dimensions, limitations, perspectives

Author(s): Emanuel COPILAȘ
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: Schuman Plan; European Communities; democratic and social deficit; economic prosperity; political stagnation

Summary/Abstract: The European construction is a process far from being over. Despite present major shortcomings, like the social and/or the democratic deficit, to mention just a few, the EU contains both the principles and the means of overcoming its major deficiencies and return once again to the ‘welfare state’ model and to its social and democratic mission it went astray from. Only then will the EU be able to regain the confidence of its citizens, aside that of its markets. The first part of this essay analyzes the beginnings of the European project, along with its successes and failures, up to the political stagnation of the 1970s and the integration of Greece, Spain and Portugal, one decade later.

  • Issue Year: II/2014
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 85-97
  • Page Count: 13