The Normativity of the European Union provides an account of what has made European integration possible. Reconstructing the integration process up to the Eurozone crisis, Eriksen provides novel insight into the conditions for integration and the nature of the EU as well as highlighting why European solidarity has become a moral duty.

Autorentext

Erik O. Eriksen is Professor of Political Science and Director of ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. His main research fields are political theory, public policy, European integration and the preconditions for post ?national democracy. Among his recent books are The Unfinished Democratization of Europe and Rethinking Democracy and the European Union (co-edited with John Erik Fossum).

Inhalt

1. The musts of European integration 2. Voluntary supranationalism 3. European democracy 4. Democratic alternatives or dead ends? 5. A cosmopolitan European future 6. Fraternité the missing must of integration