The Future Of The European Union

Nearly the late year of 1787, the U.S. Constitution was established, stating the basal laws and fundamental principles that the United States would be governed by. Many philosophers and political thinkers furnished a great comprehension for the modern day structures that are very active today. Our Founding Fathers created a system which divides different acts of government into the legislature, executive, and judicial branches. Following in the form of the Separation of Powers, the checks and balances system ensures that political power isn’t contributing to any individual or group that enables them to gain an abundant amount of power. For the instance of this, “the Constitution provides a method for change, as the Founders created it this

The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 different countries. It consists of about half a billion citizens, and its combined economy represents about 20 percent of the world’s total economy (Briney, 2015). Today The European Union works as a single market, with free movement of people, goods and services from one country to another. There is a standard system of laws to be followed, and since 1999 many countries share a single currency called the Euro (Europa.eu, 2015). This essay will explore the background history of the European Union and the benefits and drawbacks of the European Union.

However, this article states the constitution matters for reason a different reason than what most people think. The author argues that the constitution matters not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. The author upholds that the politicians and their political parties, not the Supreme Court or its decisions, are the true engines of constitutional change in our system. The author focuses on the way the constitution is framework for great political debates. This article reveals not only why the Constitution matters to each of us but also, important, how it

Part of the exceptional nature of the EU stems from the notion that nothing like it has ever been attempted successfully before. The European Union is an international institution with a single market and shared currency. It strives to maintain singular goals and make its way towards being an “ever closer union”. Today, the European Union has expanded to include twenty-eight member countries with an influence that reaches every continent. This institution has had an impressive history, but it has reached a point of concern. The golden years which held high hopes of a united supranational Union are long over. The EU faces destructive problems today, which could ultimately end their impressive era of cooperation. The Union has come

Since 1973 when the British first joined the European Union their membership has been a controversial issue. When conservatives in the United Kingdom won the general election in 2015, their election manifesto promised to hold a referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should stay or leave the European Union. The referendum also referred to as “Brexit” is scheduled to take place by the end of 2017. The United Kingdom initially joined the union to be part of the common market for the purpose of trade and to develop international relationships. The main argument for those who are pro Brexit is that being part of the European Union is too costly for the United Kingdom, that the EU has grown to large, has interfered to far into

Over the past several years, the European Union’s response to crises illustrates its resiliency, with the Union itself serving as the main support system for countries in need. Unfortunately the once prosperous European Union currently experiences a gradual decline in effectiveness. Political Scientists Sebastian Rosato and Douglas Webber highlight the issues plaguing the European Union, with Rosato focusing on post-Cold War Europe and Webber focusing on the rise of nationalists and the Union’s reliance on Germany. While each scholar takes a different approach in explaining the downfall of the Union, they each conclude that the European Union is not on a positive path. Both arguments provide valuable insight, however, Webber’s argument appears

In the wake of two devastating European wars, there was a vague desire across Europe for more unity to hopefully prevent yet another terrible conflict from breaking out. However, views over the proper scope and implementation of any such unity were often divided between the philosophies of supranationalism and intergovernmentalism. At different times, both ideas played a part in shaping the future European Union, depending on the moods of European leaders and their constituents.

In order to understand the significance of Brexit we must first look at the history of the European Union and

The increasing weight of the Union since its creation in 1951 has elevated the community to the international stage as an indubitable power and encouraged the debate about the characterization of the EU, fostered by the involvement from European political science scholars. Scholars have came up with a "sui generis" definition of the EU in the sense that it neither is an intergovernmental organization nor a federal state.4 Still, the novelty of the Union does not bound itself to the definition of the nature of European institutional set-up. Indeed, the discussion between scholars goes further towards the characterization of the European power.

It might at first seem that Tony Blair gave unconditional support to European integration including political integration. Yet he was not content with the current pace of the European integration, which benefits the EU’s founding members rather than Britain. He stated in the same speech that the reason of the EU Constitution’s rejection in France and the Netherlands was the mismatch between the political and economic sides of European

Integration in the European Union is an everlasting field of interest for social and political scientists. In consequence, recent events such as the economic crisis and the latest EU elections have fostered heated debates around the legitimising basis of the EU, and whether the so-called democratic deficit indicates an upcoming EU downfall. In this case, the concept of integration within the EU becomes highly relevant, as is generates questions such as: ‘What binds the European citizens together?’ and ‘What constitutes the EU and what should it look like?’. Here, there seems to be

When the United Kingdom (UK) officially leaves the European Union (UK) on the scheduled date, 29 March 2019, there could be widespread consequences to many infrastructural industries. Research of trade law and international relations has suggested that the UK's growth aspirations could exacerbate energy and consumption problems following the exit from the union (Wadsworth et al., 2016). There are many issues that are at stake that the two parties contributed to each other. A focus will be given to the impact that it has had on energy and consumption. Following the decision to exit the union, UK has had various challenges in trying to come up with an effective means of self-sustaining from the operations that it relied on other countries

The purpose of this research is to discover the main challenges facing the EU in the near future, by showing the economic and legal problems that the EU will face. These problems include how migration, bailouts and terrorism affect the EU economy. Furthermore it will look at anti-EU sentiments around Europe, which has appeared to spread across rapidly, due to Euro Crises. Moreover, the Legal problems that the EU will face, such as: the process of obtaining EU citizenship enabling migration and cultural clashes, whilst also looking at the statute that enables free movement of goods and people, resulting in mass immigration and the European Convention on Human Rights. This paper will evaluate EU principles that affect the UK constitution, such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the Costa v ENEL (1964) CMLR 425 case being evidence proving that the EU will face challenges concerning its law being more superior than national law, Van Gend en loos (1963) ECR 1. Where a similar principle was set and the “two-speed Europe”, which, is the idea that different member states should integrate at different levels, as it is believed that the more member states in the EU the harder it is to find a consensus amongst difficult agendas, making the EU law very inconsistent. It will be related it back to the question of ‘what are the main challenges facing the EU in the near future?’

After the Second World War ended, European politicians and citizens had a vision to make Europe’s future certain that a conflict of such magnitude would never arise again in fear of a new extreme nationalistic regime would appear once more. In 1952 progress was made by the establishment of the European coal and steel society and by 1957 the European economic union was created. Foundation for the Europe we live in now came after the treaty of Maastricht which was signed in 1993. Two decades on and the EU has become the largest political and economic union of the modern world, with a total population of over 500 million and is now the second largest economy of the world, behind only the US. First attempt for UK to become a member of the customs union was in 1961 which was unsuccessful and was vetoed, in 1963, by the French president Charles de Gaulle because he argued that the Brits did not share the same vision for European integration as the other member states. However, ten years on in 1973 the UK was successful in becoming a member along with Ireland and Denmark. Nevertheless, ever since the UK became a member, it has been a complicated and intense relationship between the UK government and main European bodies. Eurosceptics argue that things have dramatically changed in the last 40 years and the UK is no longer dependant on Europe to prosper.

The European Union is a political community constituted as an international organization whose aim is to promote integration and a common government of the European people and countries. According to the Article 3 of the European Union Treaty, Union’s aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples. It is based on the values of freedom, democracy, equality, law enforcement and respect for human rights and dignity.