The Future of Europe - Political and Legal Integration Beyond Brexit
GROUSSOT Xavier , BRAKARDIJEVA ENGELBREKT Antonina
Product details
- Categories: European Integration, Gouvernance
- Publisher: HART PUBLISHING
- Collection: Swedish Studies in European Law
- ISBN: 9781509923304
- Publication Date: 24/07/2019
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 336
- Language: English
Summary
The European Union is at a crossroads. Slowly recovering from a series
of financial and economic crises, with trust fundamentally shaken by
processes of disaggregation and increasingly nationalist politics, it is
searching for new visions that are at once inspiring and workable. In
its White Paper of 1 March 2017, the Commission proposed five
non-exclusive options for the Future of Europe. As put by the
Commission, the five scenarios are illustrative in nature to provoke
thinking. They are not detailed blueprints or policy prescriptions.
Likewise, they deliberately make no mention of legal or institutional
processes – the form will follow the function.
This book takes
the current state of the Union seriously. However, it aims to debate not
only the political vision of Europe, but also the issue of legal
integration beyond Brexit. Apart from addressing the institutional
challenges for the EU, the contributions to this volume focus on two key
areas: rule of law and security. Rule of law and security are not only
paradigmatic for the future of Europe but are also closely connected to a
particular vision of Europe based on 'integration through law'; a
vision that has been strongly contested in recent years. The overarching
question is: how can sustainable political and legal integration be
achieved in Europe?
The volume builds on a conference organised
by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in November 2017 and
includes chapters by leading scholars in the field from the Nordic
countries and wider Europe.