La longue histoire d’un « nouveau » concept: le principe de subsidiarité
The long History of a “new” Concept: the Principle of Subsidiarity

Author(s): Cristina Maria Gheorghe
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Publishing Inc. European Readings & Prodifmultimedia/Editura Napoca Star
Keywords: Subsidiarity;
Summary/Abstract: One of the first instruments and concepts that operate in the space of federalist approaches, we can say that subsidiarity was the most important for the first theorizations of the concept. Even if as a legal concept the word subsidiarity was used quite early (through the use of similar concepts: "means, rations, mortgages, subsidiary guarantees or even subsidiary conclusions", in France in the year 1694), the concept of subsidiarity will appear in dictionaries quite late in comparison with its first theorizations or even use. There are therefore several authors who consider the theories on subsidiarity only an ancient reality, based on the respect for the dignity of the individual. Thus, until the 1990s the word appeared in dictionaries only in its derived form, "subsidiary", and barely in 1992 will appear as a legal term, in the Grand Larousse Universel. However, even though the concept is less known in its deeper meanings, it seems that subsidiarity, desired by French citizens without knowing it, has not received much attention in its interpretation.

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