Volume 24 (2018), Edition 2

Does the European Union consist of a new world power with imperial ambitions? That is what is asked before the decade of crises 2008-2018, but also later on. Was it and is still it an empire at all? This will be analysed and discussed starting with...

The present crisis of the EU must be seen as part of a general crisis of parliamentary democracy. It is a crisis resulting from an extraordinary increase in change of societies, economic conditions and cultural contexts in an age of enforced...

Europe, a fallen star, is seeking regeneration. The European Union, after more than 10 years of setbacks, tries to claim the aura of a community of European values. But with the thesis of an identity between the EU and Europe the unionist elites...

The liberal order that prevailed in the West after the end of the Second World War has recently been challenged from within as much as by external forces. The liberal internationalism and liberal democratic politics that defined the idea of ‘The...

This article explores the likelihood of the ‘Doing less more efficiently’ scenario in Jean-Claude Juncker’s “White Paper on the Future of Europe” being applied for the reform of the European Union. Given the close association of this...

This article reconstructs the European Community (EC)’s - later the European Union (EU) - participation in the GATT Uruguay Round and the parallel negotiations between China and GATT/WTO members taking place in the 1980s-1990s. The two...

On 2 March 1967, the French sports newspaper L’Équipe, indicated the participation of the club of the Girondins de Bordeaux in a new European tournament called the “European Market Cup”. According to this periodical, the competition was to be...