The Dual Character of Supra-Nationalism and the Euro Crisis
By CORMAC MAC AMHLAIGH Thirty years ago, Joseph Weiler wrote of the ›dual character‹ of the then EEC as legally supranational but politically intergovernmental. Whereas the motor of integration took the form of the formulation, implementation, execution and adjudication of supranational law primarily by EU institutions, and particularly European Court of Justice, EU politics lagged behind, confined to intergovernmental bargaining and negotiation more redolent of classic international relations. The relationship between supranational law and politics was inverted, in that the success of the former was causally linked to the weaknesses of the latter. Watching ›Merkozy‹ on the steps of the ... continue reading
