Adjusting to Europe

by Yves Meny

The European Union is paradoxical: it is not a state, yet it performs many traditional functions of the state. Its regulatory powers are immense but its redistributive functions are negligible; its decisions penetrate all aspects of economic and social life, yet Brussels has no local administration or tribunals, no controllers capable of guaranteeing the correct and faithful implementation of the regulations or objectives which frame European policies.Adjusting to Europe explores the means through which this paradox is confronted. It examines the nature and modalities of policy-making at...

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