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Idei federale în construcția europeană
Federal ideas in European construction

Author(s): Laura Gheorghiu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Universul Juridic
Keywords: Coudenhove-Kalergi; federalism; distribution of power; Maximilien de Sully; sovereignty

Summary/Abstract: This paper is part of my plea for a federal Europe, irrespective of how that federation might be drawn. My committment to a competitive multi-level governance found in Europe s cultural history a good deal of projects and analysis intended to ground such a construction. With such a remarcable background, I start by pointing main reasons for a federal Europe taken from its politics, ethnic diversity demands or governance already in line. Following, then, the pattern of a Swiss idea, I try to describe a European one, collecting the main issues in specific debates. The paper ends with a brief presentation of five outstanding projects that have shaped the discussion and preparation for such a dream coming into being

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 106-130
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Romanian
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