The European Union in the 21st Century

The new Treaty of Lisbon brings important changes to the European construction, including a significant expansion of common policies decided by the Community method, a stable President for the European Council, a strengthened framework for external policies, more transparent and effective decision-making and strict safeguards of subsidiarity.

Even in the wake of the new Treaty, however, the Union remains an entity in flux, in search of its destiny. Further institutional progress is by no means excluded, but it will have to be achieved explicitly rather than brought about by stealth. The presence among the member states and in the European Parliament of political forces staunchly opposed to further deepening of the Union makes the prospect of increased use of enhanced cooperation more likely.

Ultimately, the fate of the Union depends on its ability to respond to the needs of its member states and its citizens in providing external and internal security and economic prosperity, in a global context of mounting economic and political instability, where the centre of gravity of world governance and strategic decisions is likely to continue to shift away from Europe and towards the Pacific and emerging countries.

Against this background, the essays in this volume analyse emerging equilibria in common policies, institutional settings and legitimisation mechanisms of the European Union, in the wake of the new Treaty, and sketch out possible scenarios for the 21st century.

ISBN	9290799293	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9789290799290 (What's this?)	Pages	300
Publisher	Centre for European Policy Studies	Weight (grammes)	635
Imprint	Centre for European Policy Studies	Published in	Brussels
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	241
Publication date	01 Jul 2010	Width (mm)	171
Writer of introduction	Sabino Cassese	Spine width (mm)	20
DEWEY	341.2422	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly

	Preface
1	Introduction: Im Zweifel fur Europa by Sabino Cassese	1
1	The European Union: Reasons for success	1
2	The crisis and its paradoxes	2
3	A realistic agenda	4
Part I	Economics and Consensus
2	Partisan Protectionism: Political Consensus, the Euro and Europe's Response to the Global Crisis by Carlo Bastasin	9
1	A crisis in consensus	10
2	A crisis in politics	15
3	The euro as trigger - two examples: Germany and Italy	18
4	Protection versus protectionism	21
5	Welfare	25
6	Beyond partisan protectionism	30
	References	32
3	A More Social EU: Issues of where and how by Stefano Sacchi	33
1	The need for a more social European Union	33
2	How to build a more social EU	36
3	Supplementing the internal market with social rights	38
4	Less rhetoric, more forward-looking initiatives	45
	References	48
4	Economic Policy Coordination and Failures in Europe to counter Recession by Fiorella Kostoris	50
	Introduction	50
1	When is coordination appropriate?	51
2	Economic policy coordination under pressure	54
3	A case study of the Stability and Growth Pace	56
4	Effects of the financial crisis	63
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