REMARCI PRIVIND ELEMENTE CVASI-STATALE ALE UNIUNII EUROPENE, DIN PERSPECTIVA DREPTULUI CONSTITUȚIONAL
REMARKS ON THE CVASI-STATE ELEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: Our paper is based on a study the author realized between 2001-2002, regarding EU nature, as a topic showing even today its importance from the perspective of comparing EU with traditional concepts of state, state sovereignty, state legitimacy, state association. Original nature of EU cannot exclude, in our view, quasi-state or even state elements, that appeared and progressively consolidated themselves, by implementing functionalist method, as in the EU case. Briefly analysing the definitions proposed by authors from the perspective of constitutional law, international law, corporative law, political studies, it means to reveal exactly this type of process of building a state dimension by EU “step-by step” method. This process wasn’t stopped by the rejection, in 2005, of the European Constitution, but it was massively taken over within the Lisbon treaty content, state elements being preserved in our opinion, until today, directly by effect of that treaty.

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