Dilemmas of European Integration: The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth

This major new statement from a leading European scholar provides a trenchant analysis of the pitfalls and ambiguities of 50 years of European integration, without losing sight of its benefits. Majone assesses the future of Europe after the new Constitutional Treaty, before controversially concluding that the EU has failed as a would-be federation, but has a chance of becoming an effective confederation of sovereign states.