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Klappentext An authoritative legal critique of the attractions and demerits of European integration. Zusammenfassung Joseph Weiler describes the gradual strengthening of transnational European institutions at the expense of national legislators! and provides! from a legal perspective! a balanced and authoritative critique of the attractions and demerits of the goal of European integration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. 'We Will Do ...': 1. Introduction: 'We will do, and hearken'; 2. The transformation of Europe; 3. Fundamental rights and fundamental boundaries: on the conflict of standards and values in the protection of human rights in the European legal space; 4. The external legal relations of non-unitary actors: mixity and the federal principle; 5. The least-dangerous branch: a retrospective and prospective of the European Court of Justice in the arena of political integration; Part II. 'We Will Hearken ...': 6. Introduction: the reformation of European constitutionalism; 7. Fin-de-siècle Europe: do the new clothes have an emperor?; 8. European democracy and its critics: policy and system; 9. The autonomy of the Community legal order: through the looking glass; 10. To be a European citizen: Eros and civilisation; Index.
