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The European Union Faced with a New Systemic Challenge
The European Union Faced with a New Systemic Challenge

Author(s): Petru Filip
Subject(s): History, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: European Union; federation; confederation; regional groupings

Summary/Abstract: Any material or spiritual entity has a graphical evolution explained by “Gauss’ bell.” We consider that the European Union (EU) has entered an irrefutable downward trend, facing decline in the evolution of the system, and it is in the phase of exhausting its institutions, which can no longer deal with the dynamic of national and specific EU values. In 2015, there was an increase in the importance of national concepts in the EU member states, in which national values are identified to the detriment of the specific values of a union of states which could not define its political option in order to function either as a federation or confederation of states. The EU is a unique experiment in history, wherein, therefore, the main actors want to be strong, but independent in decision-making. Within history, such a thing has enjoyed but a temporary success.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2017
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 136-148
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English