European Union - The Second Founding: The Changing Rationale of European Integration

In: Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)

Abstract

The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.