Date: 2001
Type: Thesis
The European Union and its regions : the position of sub-national levels in European integration and the contribution of the white paper on European governance
Florence : European University Institute, 2001, EUI, LAW, LLM Thesis
SCHLEISS, Yvonne, The European Union and its regions : the position of sub-national levels in European integration and the contribution of the white paper on European governance, Florence : European University Institute, 2001, EUI, LAW, LLM Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5620
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The European Union and its future have become the centre o f much attention recently. Not
only have lustrous politicians embarked upon a series of speeches about possible ways to
organise this complex and unique construction that has led most o f the peoples o f Europe into a
more and more closely integrated union. There seems at the same time to be a certain
dissatisfaction amongst those peoples, which apparently finds its cause in a growing distance felt
between the European Union and its citizens. A recent expression of this dissatisfaction - or
perhaps even distrust — is the negative outcome of the referendum about the Nice Treaty in
Ireland. Without trying to generalise, it can probably be said that the European Union finds itself
in a sort of identity crisis. The sui generis nature of die Union does not seem to satisfy people any
more. While many politicians and academics busy themselves with questions relating to the future
design and the specific nature of this construction, citizens and other so-called ‘new actors’, such
as sub-national levels of government, find that they are not sufficiently involved in the way
European policies are made and implemented.
Additional information:
Award date: 12 December 2001; Supervisor: G. De Búrca; PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017; First made available in Open Access: 02 April 2024
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5620
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/009323
Series/Number: EUI; LAW; LLM Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: International and municipal law -- European Union countries