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Dilemmas of European Integration - The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth (Paperback)
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Dilemmas of European Integration - The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth (Paperback)
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If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European
integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly
political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal
strategies. The functionalist strategy of promoting spillovers from
one economic sector to another has failed to achieve a steady
progress towards a federal union, as Jean Monnet and other
functionalists had hoped. On the other hand, the unanticipated
results of 'integration through law' have included over-regulation
and an institutional framework which is too rigid to allow
significant policy and institutional innovations. Thus, integration
by stealth has produced sub-optimal policies and a steady loss of
legitimacy by the supranational institutions. Both the
functionalist approach and the classic Community Method are
becoming obsolete.
This major statement from a leading European scholar provides the
most thorough analysis currently available of the pitfalls and
ambiguities of 50 years of European integration, without losing
sight of its benefits. Majone provides a clear demonstration of how
a number of European policies - including environmental protection
- lack a logically defensible rationale, while showing how, in
other cases, objectives may be better achieved by re-nationalizing
the policy in question. He also shows how, in an information-rich
environment, co-ordination by mutual adjustment becomes possible,
meaning that member states are no longer as dependent on central
institutions as in the past. He explains how the challenge for
future research is to investigate methods-other than delegation to
supranational institutions-by which member states can credibly
commit themselves to collective action.
Dilemmas of European Integration concludes by explaining exactly
why the model of a United States of Europe is bound to fail-not
just due to lack of popular support, but because it finds itself
unable to deliver the public goods which Europeans expect to
receive from a full fledged government. Although failing as a
would-be federation, the present Union could become an effective
confederation, built on the solid foundation of market integration.
The new Constitutional Treaty, Majone argues, seems to point in
this direction.
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