Dilemmas of European Integration: The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth
Giandomenico Majone
Abstract
The Community method is the traditional approach to European integration. However, the method is becoming obsolete, being too rigid to permit institutional and policy innovations, or to apply to politically sensitive areas. For these reasons, the member states of the EU are increasingly willing to commit themselves to common tasks, but wish to act outside the traditional framework. In a Union where national institutions and priorities are much more varied than in the past, it is impossible to force the integration process into a single pattern. The Community method was inspired by a federalist ... More
Keywords: Community method, confederation, democratic deficit, enhanced cooperation, enlargement, federation, institutional balance, monetary union, policy failures, policy learning
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199274307 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006 | DOI:10.1093/0199274304.001.0001 |
