Nicole Scicluna

Nicole Scicluna is a Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Hong Kong, specialising in European integration and the EU’s legal and constitutional governance. She is the author of European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis (Routledge, 2015). Her work has appeared in the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, European Law Journal, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and West European Politics.

scicluna@hku.hk

17 April 2019

Integration-through-crisis: The triumph of expediency over democratic legitimacy?

By Nicole Scicluna

Over the past decade, the response given by Member States to the multidimensional European crisis has given rise to a distinct integrative mode, namely ‘integration through crisis’, which may be contrasted with the integration through law that characterised the pre-Maastricht development of the European integration project.

«The salience of member state solidarity in citizens’ understanding of Social Europe implies that public opinion towards it is crucial for the democratic legitimacy of Social Europe as a political project.»

Nicole Scicluna

Nicole Scicluna

Integration-through-crisis: The triumph of expediency over democratic legitimacy?

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