Federální model a evropská realita. Krize legitimity a její překonání
The Federal Model and Europe’s Reality: ACrisis of Legitimacy and its Overcoming

Summary/Abstract: This analysis focuses on the role of the federal Europe model in the present stage of the European integration. The European Union’ appropriate constitutional form primarly depends on a political decision. Such a decision must be based on democratic legitimacy conferred by political nations of the member states, and not on a delusionary conception of the European demos. If the politicians decide to continue European integration, a federal structure for European decision making must be established, with its typical features: subsidiarity and a clear division of competences. Contrary to the traditional federative models, both German and American, the European federal model cannot be based on the concept of a federal nation. The individual political nations will remain the source of its sovereignity. As a result we can talk of federal elements without a federation, or of a consociative federation without a federal state concept.

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