The End of the Eurocrats' Dream Adjusting to European Diversity

This volume argues that the crisis of the European Union is not merely a fiscal crisis but reveals and amplifies deeper flaws in the structure of the EU itself. It is a multidimensional crisis of the economic, legal and political cornerstones of European integration and marks the end of the technocratic mode of integration which has been dominant since the 1950s. The EU has a weak political and administrative centre, relies excessively on governance by law, is challenged by increasing heterogeneity and displays increasingly interlocked levels of government. During the crisis, it has become more and more asymmetrical and has intervened massively in domestic economic and legal systems. A team of economists, lawyers, philosophers and political scientists analyse these deeper dimensions of the European crisis from a broader theoretical perspective with a view towards contributing to a better understanding and shaping the trajectory of the EU.

List of tables; Preface; 1. The retransformation of Europe Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christian Joerges; 2. The costs of non-disintegration: the case of the European Monetary Union Fritz W. Scharpf; 3. Sharing the Eurocrat's dream: a democratic approach to EMU governance in the post-crisis era Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Max Watson; 4. Neumark vindicated: the three patterns of Europeanisation of national tax systems and the future of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat Agustín José Menéndez; 5. What Europe does to citizenship Catherine Colliot-Thélène; 6. Silencing the Eurocrats in public crisis politics Pieter de Wilde; 7. Conflict-minimizing integration: how the EU achieves massive integration despite massive protest Phillip Genschel and Markus Jachtenfuchs; 8. An unholy trinity of EU presidents? The political accountability of post-crisis EU executive power Mark Bovens and Deidre Curtin; 9. The limits of collective action and collective leadership Giandomenico Majone; 10. Europe's legitimacy problem and the courts Dieter Grimm; 11. Crisis reconfiguration of the European constitutional state Damian Chalmers; 12. Integration through law and the crisis of law in Europe's emergency Christian Joerges.

Damian Chalmers is Professor of European Union Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Markus Jachtenfuchs is Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.
Christian Joerges is Senior Professor of Law and Society at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and Co-Director of the Centre of European Law and Politics at Universität Bremen.