How the court made a federation of the EU

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We analyze the European institutional integration that took place in the 1950s and 1960s as a two-stage process. Firstly, an explicitly political project aims at establishing a European political community. The project is abandoned in the mid-1950s and political integration stops. At that time, the institutions of the Union take the form of a confederation. In a second stage, because of the failure of the European political community, a legal process of integration driven by the European Court of Justice takes place. This second stage of unification is more centralizing and in effect leads to a federalization of the European institutional structure. The transformation of the political structure of the European Union thus appears to result from the actions and decisions of a legal entity, the European Court of Justice. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007.

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Josselin, J. M., & Marciano, A. (2007). How the court made a federation of the EU. Review of International Organizations, 2(1), 59–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-006-9001-y

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