This chapter argues that the one-sidedness of the integration process, its promotion of ever deeper economic integration, has contributed to the legitimacy crisis with which the EU is confronted at present. This crisis has, in the course of the efforts to tame the financial crisis through...

The financial crisis, and resulting crisis with the Euro, has had profound effects on the EU, and its Member States, even those that do not form part of the Euro zone. It has generated a welter of measures to combat the ‘problem' and this flurry of initiatives has not yet come to an end, nor...

The Lisbon Treaty is the outcome of several constitutional compromises. The compromise between the supranational and the intergovernmental views of the European Union (EU), the compromise between the member states engaged in building a European Monetary Union (EMU) and those allowed to opt-out...