The future of the European Union : demisting the debate
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"Does Europe have a collective future, or will the coming years be marked by
increasingly incoherent developments within the heterogeneous EU? There is no
denying that the second decade of this century has seen a strong mood shift away
from the inter-dependence and concerted actions that guided Europe’s national
governments since the end of World War II, and then since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What connections, if any, are there between the paroxysms of Brexit in the UK and
the varying shades of populism in continental Europe? The common denominator
may simply be the painful economic pressures resulting from waning global
competitiveness.
It is clear that the high ideals of the European project no longer exert the same
political pull. The EU’s dreams of progressing almost seamlessly from a trading zone
to a shared political economy are not being realised. Where are the convergence
policies that would exert centripetal rather than centrifugal forces? Where is the
appetite for reforms leading to political union, and whatever happened to the idea of
Europeans speaking with one voice?
If the EU continues along its present path, the verdict of history may well be that
it achieved little more than the welter of regulations needed to ensure trade flows. In
geopolitical terms, Europe as a major player on the world stage may have been an
illusion largely created by aggregating national statistics."
Giles Merritt.
Mark Harwood
Stefano Moncada
Roderick Pace
Published by the Institute for European Studies, University of Malta.
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First published in 2020
Copyright © The Institute for European Studies, University of Malta, 2020
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Issue Date | Title | Author(s) |
2020 | The future of the European Union : demisting the debate | Harwood, Mark; Moncada, Stefano; Pace, Roderick; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | EU integration and policy (in)coherence towards irregular migration | Petroni, Nadia; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The steps from Dublin III to Dublin IV | Matera, Amelia Martha; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | Towards a ‘Cyber Maastricht’ : two steps forward, one step back | Kasper, Agnes; Vernygora, Vlad Alex; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The future of EU defence and inter-parliamentary co-operation | Pace, Roderick; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | EU cybersecurity governance – stakeholders and normative intentions towards integration | Kasper, Agnes; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The future of European security and defence : keeping the Americans in? | Cassar, Valentina; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The Arab Spring and the Post-Arab Spring (2011-19) : an assessment of the European response | Khader, Bichara; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The EU’s role in the world trading system | Pomfret, Richard W. T.; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The future of Europe : the view from Strasbourg during the ‘Future of Europe’ debate | Harwood, Mark; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | The future of the EU in Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union speeches | Cachia, Jean Claude; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | Portrait of a union : redrawing a sketch of the whole | Chryssochoou, Dimitris N.; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | Decoupling and federalizing : Europe after the multiple crises | Fabbrini, Sergio; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | Europe’s lifelong companion? The debate on the future of Europe | Pace, Roderick; Harwood, Mark; Moncada, Stefano; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
2020 | Foreword : European integration's extended gestation : forever half-pregnant | Merritt, Giles; University of Malta. Institute for European Studies |
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