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What is the nature of the European Union? Does it have the characteristics of a state, and if so, which? We employ a simple image -- a poster that won a Marshall Plan competition in 1950 -- to examine the various legal perspectives of the EU that have emerged over the past six decades. Created as a symbol of European unity at the outset of European integration, the image was used half a century later on the book cover of Andrew Moravcsiks instant classic on intergovernmentalism. Here, we interpret the image yet again -- in four different basic ways. This attempt to sort out the legal perspectives of the EU was inspired by the Lisbon Treaty Case that has been decided by the German Constitutional Court in 2009 by employing a "container state" conceptualization of Germanys political and constitutional situation. Adapted from the source document.

What is the nature of the European Union? Does it have the characteristics of a state, and if so, which? We employ a single imagea poster that won a Marshall Plan competition in 1950to examine the various legal perspectives of the EU that have emerged over the past six decades. Created as a symbol of European unity at the outset of European integration, the image was used half a century later on the book cover of Andrew Moravcsik's instant classic on intergovernmentalism. Here, we reinterpret the image yet againin four different ways. This attempt to sort out the legal perspectives of the EU was inspired by the Lisbon Treaty Case that is currently before the German Constitutional Court and will be decided in May 2009.