This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union
as it departs from its path of integration. Indeed so far has it
departed that it could be described as having entered a new
reality. The original reality was that captured in the evocative
phrase in its founding agreement, the Treaty of Rome, that it
should be an ever-closer union of peoples. Largely that was the
path followed until the 1990s, but by the early twenty-first
century there have been signs that it is turning into an ordinary
international organization in which there is little overriding
sense of purpose.
This book discusses the indications of this development and
explains why it happened only a decade or so after a peak of
popular enthusiasm in the early 1990s. The question was whether the
EU would become less important for the member states, as seemed to
be the case for the British, or whether the German pattern, in
which the EU remained important, would prevail. This book concludes
that the former is more likely in part because of problems with the
policies of the European Union and its conduct, but more
specifically because of the current prevailing political culture in
Western Europe. Paul Taylor warns that the current problems are
underestimated and that there is the risk of casually throwing away
the considerable achievements of the integration process.
The End of European Integration will be of interest to all those
with an interest in European integration, whether for or against.
It will also interest students of European studies, European
politics, and politics and international relations in general.
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