Markus Jachtenfuchs

Most EU-scholars conceive of the EU as a multilevel polity with strong powers to regulate economic policy externalities among the member states but little power to intervene in, let alone assume, core functions of sovereign government ('core state powers') such as foreign and defense policy, public finance, public administration, and the maintenance of law and order. Meer

This volume argues that the crisis of the European Union is not merely a fiscal crisis but reveals and amplifies deeper flaws in the structure of the EU itself. Meer

Discussing what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establishing ‘how federal’ the EU is (the EU’s federal challenge). Meer

Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist es, zentrale Probleme des euro­ päischen Integrationsprozesses und der Funktionsweise der EU aus einer theoretischen Perspektive zu untersuchen. Meer