Future of the European Integration in the Light of the Analysis of the Sources of European Idea Crisis Cover Image

Przyszłość integracji w świetle analizy źródeł kryzysu idei europejskiej
Future of the European Integration in the Light of the Analysis of the Sources of European Idea Crisis

Author(s): Helena Tendera-Właszczuk
Subject(s): Economy, National Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: European Union; models of integration; crisis of the European idea; future scenarios for the EU

Summary/Abstract: Since 2000, the intensive debate on the future of the European integration has started again. The beginning of the current debate was the Constitutional Treaty, which did not come to force. The idea of creating af ederal organization collapsed. The future model of integration is still an open question. On the other hand, the economic crisis of the world economy, started in 2008, which influenced the EU very strongly, rises aquestion whether the European Union is able to face internal and external crisis. The possible scenarios for the European Union in the years to come can be very different. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the current model of the European integration, which consists of very many federal model’s ele-ments but is still far away from federation. The influence of the treaties on the hybrid model of integration is discussed in the paper. There are three possible scenarios for the future of the EU presented in this paper.

  • Issue Year: XLIX/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 205-213
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish