World politics has been surprised recently by two sudden developments. The first took place around the beginning of 2007, when the question of global warming rose abruptly to the top of the agenda, after having been a factor in the background. The second occurred in the autumn of 2008, when the rules for a global economy started inspiring great anxiety, after having been regarded as a source of stability. These two shifts took place independently, but their consequences will require common management. The regulatory structure underlying the world’s economic, legal, and political systems needs to be revised. This presents the EU with the greatest challenge it has ever faced. The point is that this global challenge comes on top of the pr- lems already posed by markets, welfare states, security, energy, and movements of population. The additional challenge is furthermore of such a kind that a deeper discussion of the very structure of the Union is difficult to avoid.

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Book Title: How Unified Is the European Union?
Book Subtitle: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy
Editors: Lars Pehrson, Lars Oxelheim, Sverker Gustavsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95855-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-95854-3Published: 14 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10106-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-95855-0Published: 12 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 189
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Integration, Political Science, European Law

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