Constitutional Sovereignty and Social Solidarity in Europe

Jeffrey Ellsworth, Johan ven der Walt, Jeffrey Ellsworth, Johan ven der Walt

• Publisher: Nomos/Bloomsbury
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781474228411
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474228404
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The essays in this book respond in different ways to questions regarding sovereignty, constitutionality and social solidarity in the European Union.

A common theme in the book is a perception that the people and peoples of the European Union have drifted into a quagmire of political paralysis within which essential features of the paralysis – lack of constitutionality, lack of sovereignty and lack of social solidarity – feed off one another. Some of the essays put forward a more positive view. They associate the demise of sovereignty in Member States of the European Union with an emergence of new forms of democracy or new formations of political legitimacy in the complex structures of multi-level governance in the European Union.

Between them, the essays provide the reader with a comprehensive study of the key issues of European politics and law today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Sovereignty in the European Union
• Sovereignty and Democracy in the European Polity:  Reflections On Dieter Grimm’s Essay “Sovereignty In The European Union”
• “Within the Scope of European Union Law,” Beyond the Principle of Conferral?
• Judical Enforcement of Social Solidarity in View of Recent European, German and French Jurisprudence
• Common Good No More? Some Jurisprudential Reflections on European (Dis)Integration
• Democratic Legitimacy of EU Law:  Two Proposals to Strengthen Democracy in the European Union
• Revisiting the Rationale Behind the European Union – the Basis of European Narratives Today and Tomorrow
• Europe’s Sovereign Knot in a Globalised World
• Europe’s Donors and Its Supplicants:  Reflections on the Greek Crisis
• Timeo Danais Dona Ferre and the Constitution that Europeans May One Day Have Given Themselves