This paper attempts to explain why it was that the countries of the European Community came together to form a political union in the early 1990s. The explanations most often invoked to explain this process - those drawn from competing schools in international relations and federalism theory -...

Federalism and European Union examines the decision to adopt EMU as a federal bargain by the European Union as designed to provide the countries of Europe with a bulwark against the volatility of the international economy. Although the precise motives of the participants varied from country to...

Few dispute that one of the most pressing issues for the future of the Europe is the question of constitutional design. To what extent will unanimity voting in the Council of Ministers replaced by qualified majority voting and how should these votes be distributed by country? Should the European...