CONSIDERAȚII PRIVIND ELEMENTE CONFEDERALE ȘI FEDERALE ALE UNIUNII EUROPENE
CONSIDERATIONS ON CONFEDERAL AND FEDERAL ELEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: Our paper is proposing a brief exploration regarding EU nature, starting from the premise of the unique, original juridical-political nature of this entity based on three economic communities. Far from identifying EU with such three communities at its origin, it is better to note the progressive consolidation of some confederal and federal features within such entity created under the Maastricht treaty aegis. From that moment, EU started to expand continuously, by progressive cessions of competences, that others are calling parts of sovereignties, while other part of the doctrine are pledging rather for the preeminent role of member states, whose importance for deciding EU future and EU nature remain a decisive one. As French and Romanian doctrine are revealing in their works, EU can be identified equally as a confederation, under specific features, either as a federation, by taking into account other types of features and the progressive integration (neo-functionalism) within EU. But none of such features can limit the originality of EU as unique entity, as surpassing any known pattern of political organization. So, the thesis of our approach is destined to reveal rather the hybrid, postmodern, multi-faced profile of EU, than shaping it according to some determined pattern.

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