IORDAN GHEORGHE BĂRBULESCU, NOUA EUROPĂ. IDENTITATE ȘI MODEL EUROPEAN, IAȘI: POLIROM PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2015, 623 P
IORDAN GHEORGHE BĂRBULESCU, NOUA EUROPĂ. IDENTITATE ȘI MODEL EUROPEAN, IAȘI: POLIROM PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2015, 623 P

Summary/Abstract: Professor Iordan Gh. Bărbulescu’s New Europe covers the latest additions brought to the ever evolving project of the European Union after the successful ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in 2007. One of the main tenets of the book revolves around the fact that this was the rational step towards the establishment and consolidation of a federation comprised of nation-states. New Europe is a scholarly journey into the intricacies of a European Union that is trying to become more transparent for its citizens. At the same time, New Europe constitutes a valuable academic work in support of the idea also advanced by the Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, Giuliano Amato, that: “The Lisbon Treaty does not shut the door to a future of enduring European constitutionalism. To the contrary, it paves the way for it” . This newest comprehensive textbook on the European Union is a testament to the enduring notion of European unity which has on one hand surpassed the expectations of those familiar with a Europe of nation-states characterised by strife, enmity and war while on the other, remained true to the founding fathers’ idea of building a “Europe of the people”. In other words, a “federal Europe”.

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