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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 December 2024
      19 December 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009573061
      9781009573030
      9781009573085
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009573061
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.554kg, 272 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.398kg, 272 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
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    How did the European Union (EU) deal with the crises of the 2010s and 2020s? These crises arose in policy realms that were the province of national governments, so the European Council was the driving institution for managing them. National governments were able to take decisions, but their decisions were contradictory and unaccountable, and regularly hindered by divisions between them. In order to manage a policymaking process dominated by the claims of national and sub-regional governments, Sergio Fabbrini argues that intergovernmental governance has had to transform the EU into an international organization. Fabbrini shows that differentiated integration would further distance the EU from the project of an 'ever closer union' and, on the basis of a comparative federalism approach, he proposes an alternative paradigm of a multi-tier Europe with a federalist core to balance national sovereignties and supranational authority.

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    ‘A very welcome addition to the literature on the European Union. A major expert on comparative federalism, Sergio Fabbrini rightly argues for the need to consider the EU in federalist terms. This book presents important proposals for how to move the EU from its crises-ridden penchant for intergovernmentalism and towards federalism which deserves to be properly addressed.’

    John Erik Fossum - Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo

    ‘This federalist alternative gives a fresh and compelling perspective on how the EU can address current challenges, particularly as it confronts the need to develop new competences and take on new member states in the face of a hostile geopolitical environment.’

    Erik Jones Source: Survival

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