Journal article
Authors list: Grasse, A
Publication year: 2001
Pages: 407-443
Journal: Journal of European Integration
Volume number: 23
Issue number: 4
ISSN: 0703-6337
eISSN: 1477-2280
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330108429110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
European integration is progressing unremittingly, regardless of the unsatisfactory results of the European Council Meeting in Nice in December 2000. However, even after a phase of strengthening, the marginalisation of the ‘third level’ grows more and more imminent. Tendencies towards centralisation are unequivocal. In addition, the long‐running legitimacy and democracy deficit accompanying the EU still remains unsolved and continues to grow on a daily basis. At the same time, in some member states such as Italy, for example, there is a dynamic at work in the regjonalisation process, which, within the European context, has produced altogether informative results. With the Italian ‘Regional‐State model’ serving as an example, this article attempts to explore European regionalism's chances of development between the state‐organisational guiding principles of federalism and centralism, and to assess whether this region‐alisation process can contribute to a strengthening of European democracy in the nation state. Furthermore, this article brings to light the indispensability of a clear regulation of legislative and administrative powers within the EU's multi‐level governance system, thus ultimately highlighting the need to create a European constitution.
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Harvard Citation style: Grasse, A. (2001) The Future of the Regional Dimension in the EU: Nice and Beyond, Journal of European Integration, 23(4), pp. 407-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330108429110
APA Citation style: Grasse, A. (2001). The Future of the Regional Dimension in the EU: Nice and Beyond. Journal of European Integration. 23(4), 407-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330108429110