A Philosophy of European Union LawIs the European Union a new Walden? Although a contrast in form and format, the Union is surprisingly close to the latter's underlying philosophy. One can read this proximity in the Treaties or the many facets of the European idea which mirrors in the Union's emerging legal system. Today there is no longer a Union of a limited number of Nation States desiring to end divisions among themselves, to acquire mutual respect and prosperity or a higher standard of living and working conditions for its members. European citizenship shows a global orientation and is in continuous competition with the discourse of a globalizing economy and its Internet democracy. Analyses of concepts such as political geography, global, (supra)national and regional citizenship, democracy, learning society, native tongue and market lead to the insight that the Union's legal system wishes to ensure its citizens a legally engendered, formatted and protected global position for action. Walden's philosophy has a new face. |
Contents
Juridificating Geography | 1 |
Chapter | 5 |
The Construction of EU | 10 |
Choice of Legal Basis | 18 |
Certainty and Expectations | 31 |
Identity Geography and Space | 61 |
b Mare Nostrum | 62 |
The Union a Conceptual World Image | 67 |
MEMBER STATE AND GLOBAL DEMOCRACY | 225 |
b Competence | 247 |
Demos and Representation | 260 |
Philosophical Dimensions | 266 |
Representation | 272 |
CITIZENSHIP | 279 |
b Active Citizenship | 288 |
Indeterminacies of Citizenship | 323 |
Membership | 75 |
Membership as an Issue of EU Law Philosophy | 88 |
In and Out the Union | 98 |
MEMBERSHIP IN THE MIRROR OF CONTRACT | 105 |
Before | 112 |
TREATIES AND MEMBERS | 135 |
Original Constituent Power | 144 |
b Reasonable Expectations | 152 |
Accession and PreAccession | 164 |
Theoretical Reflections | 178 |
Fairness of Access | 190 |
The Transatlantic Agenda | 214 |
Language | 328 |
MARKET | 343 |
Language in the Treaties | 346 |
b Internal Common and Global Market | 355 |
Global Market and Global Order | 371 |
Labour and Global Market Regimes | 388 |
The Construction of a Juridical World Image | 430 |
Concluding Reflections | 437 |
LITERATURE | 445 |
ECJ CASES AND EU DOCUMENTS | 459 |
NAME INDEX | 465 |
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