| Author (Person) | Bertoncini, Yves |
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| Publisher | Jacques Delors Institute [Notre Europe] |
| Series Title | Tribune |
| Series Details | June 2012 |
| Publication Date | June 2012 |
| Content Type | Report |
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The on-going evolution of the eurozone crisis has elicited healthy calls for a boost to European integration which often crystallise around the concept of a 'federal leap'. Yves Bertoncini tries to clarify the terms of this debate, in a Notre Europe’s viewpoint identifying four main issues: 1 - A 'European Federation of Nation States' based on a specific social and political contract 2 - Adjusting the share out of competences between the EU and its member states 3 - The issue of European government and of recourse to differentiation 4 - The need to rise to the democratic challenges at the national and Community levels Competences, government, democracy: those are the three main issues in a European 'roadmap' which must not be purely economic and social, but must also be political and institutional – and they are also the ingredients of the political jolts, as daring as it is reasonable, which the EU so sorely needs. |
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| Source Link | http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/FederalLeap_NEviewpoint_June2012.pdf |
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| Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
