Dilemat e munguara të procesit të integrimit europian
The missing dilemmas of the process of European integration

Summary/Abstract: Can the European Union modernising paradigm work? Is it possible for Albania to democratise and develop economically through imposition of EU legal principles, concepts, rules, and standards? An obvious consequence of this paradigm is the development of a politics without vision, which commits itself only to do its ‘homework’. Hence Albanian politics has transformed itself from being ‘the art of possible’ to being ‘the science of obedience’. Moreover, in addition to the problem of deformation of the role of politics, there is the problem of social dysfunctionality of Europeanising reforms. These problems are dealt with from the viewpoint of the sociology of law and political sociology, by paying special attention to concepts that aim at describing how, why, and with what consequences occurs the transfer of law from one legal system to another, such as ‘legal transplant’, ‘legal culture’, ‘legal irritant’, and ‘palace wars’. As a conclusion, the problem of deformation of the role of politics and the problem of social dysfunctionality of Europeanising reforms are inextricably linked to the current conception of European integration process. This process must be reconceptualised dynamically in order to give politics an active role, to return to it the vision it has lost with the metaphor of ‘homework’, and must not continue to be regarded as a list of costs and benefits; rather, as challenges and opportunities.

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