The End of the Eurocrats' Dream
Adjusting to European Diversity

This theory-guided interdisciplinary study provides a broad conceptual perspective on the current EU crisis which goes beyond short-term detailed analysis.

Damian Chalmers (Edited by), Markus Jachtenfuchs (Edited by), Christian Joerges (Edited by)

9781107514676, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2018

363 pages, 10 tables
23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

'While EU scholarship still tends to narrate the Union's history as one of successful adaptation, and the 'euro crisis' as something like a rite of passage, here is a book in a different mould … The volume makes for powerful critical reading. While studies of the failings of Eurozone design and their institutional consequences are now abundant, the editors have a larger ambition: to show the effects of crisis on the ideas and ideals commonly vested in the EU.' Jonathan White, Verfassungsblog (www.verfassungsblog.de)

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. It is a multidimensional crisis of the economic, legal and political cornerstones of European integration and marks the end of the technocratic mode of integration which has been dominant since the 1950s. The EU has a weak political and administrative centre, relies excessively on governance by law, is challenged by increasing heterogeneity and displays increasingly interlocked levels of government. During the crisis, it has become more and more asymmetrical and has intervened massively in domestic economic and legal systems. A team of economists, lawyers, philosophers and political scientists analyse these deeper dimensions of the European crisis from a broader theoretical perspective with a view towards contributing to a better understanding and shaping the trajectory of the EU.

List of tables
Preface
1. The retransformation of Europe Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christian Joerges
2. The costs of non-disintegration: the case of the European Monetary Union Fritz W. Scharpf
3. Sharing the Eurocrat's dream: a democratic approach to EMU governance in the post-crisis era Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Max Watson
4. Neumark vindicated: the three patterns of Europeanisation of national tax systems and the future of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat Agustín José Menéndez
5. What Europe does to citizenship Catherine Colliot-Thélène
6. Silencing the Eurocrats in public crisis politics Pieter de Wilde
7. Conflict-minimizing integration: how the EU achieves massive integration despite massive protest Phillip Genschel and Markus Jachtenfuchs
8. An unholy trinity of EU presidents? The political accountability of post-crisis EU executive power Mark Bovens and Deidre Curtin
9. The limits of collective action and collective leadership Giandomenico Majone
10. Europe's legitimacy problem and the courts Dieter Grimm
11. Crisis reconfiguration of the European constitutional state Damian Chalmers
12. Integration through law and the crisis of law in Europe's emergency Christian Joerges.

Subject Areas: Local government law [LNDU], Law [L], EU & European institutions [JPSN2], Politics & government [JP]