Die EU als Imperium: Auf dem Prufstand: Modelle politischer Ordnung

In: Osteuropa, Band 61, Heft 5-6, S. 203-214

Abstract

European integration is a fact: areas long considered the prerogative of the nation-state -- internal affairs and justice, the securing of borders and immigration, as well as foreign policy -- have been communitised. Successive waves of enlargement have changed the character of the European Union. Sometimes, the EU is understood in analogy to a nation-state, sometimes as federation. In fact, as a model of political order, the EU comes closest to empire. Adapted from the source document.