Civitas civitatum ili monstro simile? Izgledi nadnacionalne državnosti na primjeru Europske unije
Civitas Civitatum or Monstro Simile? Prospects Of National, Sovereignty as Demonstrated by the Example of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The author portrays the crisis of national and state sovereignty in contemporary Europe, the consequence of economic and political integrational processes and the creation of new supranational institutions. The question is whether these supranational institutions can be democratically structured and if they can provide for the level of social integration which used to be secured by the national state. The most recent discussions have revolved around theoretical concepts of denationalized sovereignties, international legislation and asynchronous denationalization, which are indicative of the crisis of national sovereignty.. Possible modes of the distribution of sovereign authorities among various constituents have been developed based on an extremely interesting historical parallel between the institutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in the pivotal years from 1495 to 1576 and the existing or proposed institutions of the European Union. The prospects of the European Union, the author concludes, are not going to be determined or affected by the lack of democracy but by the lack of political efficiency and political unity.

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