Die Europäische Union als Bund: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Verabschiedung des Staatenbund-Bundesstaat-Schemas

Schönberger, Christoph

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“…Along with the apparently unsettled and increasingly confusing meaning of sovereignty (Koopmans , 203), all this makes this concept a methodologically unhelpful epistemic and explanatory tool (Beaud , 89; Schönberger , 109) . As a result sovereignty can and indeed should be abandoned on these grounds alone, even without adopting an explicitly negative normative attitude to it.…”

Section: The Perspectives On Sovereignty and The Conceptions Of Europmentioning

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“…However, irrespective of the disparate terminology adopted, all accounts of this conception place European integration in some sort of federal but non‐statist constitutional form. This draws its inspiration from medieval constitutional theories, as in the case of the cosmopolitan federalist account of European integration (Bellamy and Castiglione , 427), or from more recent constitutional forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, such as a commonwealth (MacCormick ) or a non‐statist federation (Beaud ; Schönberger ). Whereas the cosmopolitan‐federalist account is more concerned with the realization of its normative telos, with the recognition of the universal human rights of each and every individual, rather than with outlining concrete institutional solutions (other than stressing the paramount role of judiciary), the other two accounts pay some attention also to institutional aspects.…”

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“…The European commonwealth, the conception of European integration defended by MacCormick (, 339), rests on the idea of a common good (“common weal”) that is shared by the people and pervades the functioning of the EU's political structure, which is founded upon a common constitutional arrangement. In institutional terms the European commonwealth resembles the constitutional structure of a Federation ( Bund ), according to which the EU is a three‐level, for some authors a two‐level, entity, consisting of the Member States and the Union, as part of an overall federalist structure (Beaud ; Schönberger ). In either of the accounts, the result of integration is a non‐statist entity, and both accounts claim that neither the Member States nor the EU is sovereign.…”

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“…A union is a special entity, neither federal nor confederal non‐statist, founded upon a hybrid Treaty‐Constitution agreement between the Member States for an unlimited period of time. Its constitutional structure is distinctively pluralist, composed of three constitutive elements: the Member States, the supranational level—the union stricto sensu —and the common whole—the union lato sensu (Schönberger , 87; Beaud , 108). Both the Member States and the European Union have advanced plausible claims to ultimate legal and political authority.…”

Section: Pluralist Sovereignty and The Concept Of Unionmentioning

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Theorizing Sovereignty and European Integration

Avbelj

2014

Ratio Juris

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This article examines the relationship between the concept of sovereignty and the process of European integration. It is argued that the nature of this relationship has been both mutually informative and transformative. As a particular understanding of sovereignty has influenced and determined the perception of European integration, i.e., its conceptualization, so the process of European integration has reflected back on sovereignty and entailed its rethinking. This poses a particular challenge for legal theorists: how to pin down the meaning of sovereignty and European integration so as to put both in the best conceptual and normative light. The article begins by looking at the traditional perspective on sovereignty and how this has been challenged by European integration. The focus then shifts from sovereignty to European integration in order to examine how different perspectives on sovereignty, when used as an epistemic lens for understanding the process of European integration, have produced uneven conceptions of this integration. Finally, the article concludes by making a choice between the various conceptions of sovereignty and European integration. It is argued that the best conception of European integration is offered by the constitutional form of a union founded on pluralist sovereignty.

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Section: The Perspectives On Sovereignty and The Conceptions Of Europmentioning

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Theorizing Sovereignty and European Integration

Avbelj

2014

Ratio Juris

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“…Huber (2001) (Kirchhof 1992(Kirchhof , 1998 Kommissionspräsident (1958-1967) Hallstein (1901-1982 genannt hat (1962, 1969, s. 228)? Auch Deutschland und die usA hatten schließlich einen Weg voller Windungen und Wendungen neu zurückgelegt, bevor sie ihre endgültige bundesstaatliche form erreichten (Oeter 1998(Oeter , 2009schönberger 2004). Es könnte allerdings auch sein, dass wir unsere Interpretation der modernen Eu als hybride form zwischen Bundesstaat und staatenbund vollständig über Bord werfen müssen, weil sich die Eu-Wirklichkeit (weitgehend) außerhalb der sphäre von staatlichkeit bewegt.…”

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Europe’s Ship of States: What is the Nature of European Union?

Leibfried

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Frisina³

2009

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Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag gilt einem genauen Blick auf ein Poster, das, vom euroföde-ralen zeitgeist inspiriert, für die Einheit Europas mit einem segelschiff wirbt und das 1950 den ersten Preis in einem Preisausschreiben der Marshal-Plan-Behörde gewann. Der amerikanische Politikwissenschaftler Andrew Moravcsik verwendete es 1998 auf einem Bucheinband mit völ-lig veränderter Bedeutungszuschreibung, da für ihn als "Intergouvernementalisten" Europa eher einem staatenbund ähnelt. An Hand dieses Plakats lässt sich das Kontinuum der Diskussion über die Rechts-und staatsnatur der Europäischen union markieren und die frage nach ihrer Natur aufschlüsseln: Ist sie ein Bundesstaat, Bund, Verfassungsverbund, staatenverbund, staatenbund? Oder ein unikum? Diese zeichnung eines staatsschiffs ist eine bildliche politische Metapher, die auf einer alten, vieldeutigen und mehrschichtigen tradition beruht. Auch das Lissabon-urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts wird in diese Bestandsaufnahme einbezogen. Der Beitrag zielt darauf, eine sozialwissenschaftlich-ikonographische Bilanz zu einer für Deutschland weiterhin lebenswichtigen rechtswissenschaftlichen Kontroverse zu ziehen. © Vs-Verlag 2009 für die erste Übersetzung ins Deutsche danken wir Melike Wulfgramm. Die Kernideen dieses Artikels erschienen am 4. März 2009 in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung. für eine englischsprachige Version dieses Artikels siehe: stephan Leibfried et al. (2009). Wir haben sehr vielen für diese mühsame sammelarbeit und für sehr viele Anregungen zu danken: Armin schönberger und Gerd Winter. Ohne die viele konstruktive Kritik und wertvolle unterstützung dieses Projekts hätte sich dieses Europa-schiff nicht auf Kurs halten lassen. Prof. Dr. s. Leibfried () Professor der Politikwissenschaften und sprecher des sfb staatlichkeit im Wandel (sfb 597) der universität Bremen, Bremen, Deutschland E-Mail: stephan.leibfried@sfb597.uni-bremen.de s. M. Gaines schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin beim sfb 597 in Bremen, Bremen, Deutschland Dr. L. frisina Politikwissenschaftlerin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des sfb 597 in der vergleichenden Gesundheitsforschung, Bremen, Deutschland 390 s. Leibfried et al. Abstract:What ist 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 Moravcsik's 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 Germany's political and constitutional situation.Keywords: European integration · Legal nature...

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“Friendliness” Towards Others: How the German Constitution Deals with Legal Pluralism

Viellechner

2020

Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law

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Die Europäische Union als Bund: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Verabschiedung des Staatenbund-Bundesstaat-Schemas

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Theorizing Sovereignty and European Integration

Theorizing Sovereignty and European Integration

Europe’s Ship of States: What is the Nature of European Union?

“Friendliness” Towards Others: How the German Constitution Deals with Legal Pluralism

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