NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Summary/Abstract: European integration, begun more than 60 years ago, has always faced, with each legal measure adopted in this respect, the resistance of the European peoples that have always been afraid to lose their sovereignty. Camouflaged in an attractive packaging for Europeans, political integration has constantly continued its course, since what has been done so far in the economic sphere, accepted by peoples out of reasons that keep to prosperity and progress, could not have been possible without the transfer of political decisions from a national to a community level. In other words, this means giving up on national sovereignty in favor of some superstatal authorities; however, Europeans have never been told this directly. Now, when the process is quite advanced and one may notice that in certain national affairs the internal authorities, democratically chosen by the citizens, no longer have the power to make a decision, the issue of sovereignty is thus more often brought into public attention, the reactions against being more and more radical. Political leaders tackle differently the issue of sovereignty, and subsequently states regard this issue as being more or less important, comparing it to other issues considered now more urgent, such as for instance the crisis and its effects.

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