European disunion : between sovereignty and solidarity
Introduction Jack Hayward and Rudiger K.W. Wurzel 1. Union without Concensus J.Hayward Part I Enfeebled Democratic Legitimacy 2. The Difficult Emergence of a European People Michael Bruter 3. A Nascent Transnational Civili Society Elizabeth Monaghan 4. An Obdurately National Party Politics Robert Ladrech Part II Institutional Deadlock: A Surfeit of Would-be Leaders 5. National Governments, the European Council and Councils of Ministers: A Plurality of Sovereignties. Member State Soverreigns without an EU Sovereign Jack Hayward 6. The European Commission Bureaucracy: Handling Sovereingty throught the Back and Front Doors Edward C. Page 7. The Empowerment of Parliaments in EU Interrogations: Victims or Victors? Maja Kluger Rasmussen 8. National Courts and European Union Courts Patrick Birkinshaw 9. Defending the Euro: Unity and Disunity among Europe's Central Bankers David Howarth 10. Territorial Flexibility Michael Keating Part III Policy Divergences and Convergences 11. Foreign and Defence Policy: The Sovereignty Obsession and the Quest for Elusive Solidarity Anand Menon 12. Economics and Monetary Disunion? Kenneth Dyson 13. Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-)Emergence of Competitive Tension Nick Parsons 14. From Environmental Disunion towards Envirnomental Union?: Rudiger K.W. Wurzel Part IV Adjusting to the REceding Sovereignty of Member States 15. A Contested Franco-German Duumvirate William Paterson 16. Opt-out: Britain's Unsplendid Isolation Philip Norton 17. The Nordic Countries: The Causes and Consequences of Variable Geometry Nick Sitter 18. Southern European and the 'Trade-off': Architects of European Disunion? Martin J. Bull 19. The Central and East European Countries: From Weak Latecomers to Good Citizens of the Union Vesselin Dimitrov Conclusion: European Disunion: Between Solidarity and Sovereignty Rudiger K.W. Wurzel and Jack Hayward