Which European Union Europe after the Euro crisis

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-338) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface: how many Unions?; Part I. Institutionalisation of Multiple Unions: 1. From Rome to the Lisbon Treaty; 2. The Lisbon Treaty and the Euro Crisis; 3. Institutionalisation and constitutional divisions; Part II. Main Perspectives on the European Union: 4. The perspective of the economic community; 5. The perspective of intergovernmental union; 6. The perspective of parliamentary union; Part III. Towards the Compound Union Perspective: 7. Comparing democratic models; 8. Compound unions and the EU; 9. A new political order in Europe.

"In the EU experience, the very concept of union was formally used for the first time in the preamble of the 1957 Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), when the signatory states expressed their determination "to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe". This concept was then strengthened in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty or Treaty establishing the European Union (TEU), when the signatory states reaffirmed in the Treaty's preamble their resolution "to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe""--