Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Baudouin Bollaert
    L'integration europeenne, seule solution a la crise
    in Politique internationale , n. 133 - Automne, 2011 ,  2011
    José Manuel Barroso is half-way through his second term as head of the European Commission. His task is far from easy, to say the least, given the economic and financial storm that has been raging in EU countries for some months now. Is the Commission no longer playing its past role as catalyst and idea incubator? Has it run out of solutions to resolve the debt problem? In this interview with Baudouin Bollaert, the former Prime Minister of Portugal refutes these charges. In any case, the crisis has led him to make a strong claim that the institution he leads should take a central role in problem-solving. In other words, more political integration and less inter-governmental collaboration is needed. But it is hard to defend this position in a union of 27 countries where a number of voters are tempted to retreat back into their national shells. Still, José Manuel Barroso doesn't see how a single European country, no matter how large, can resolve this situation on its own.
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