Posted on Wednesday 18th May 2011
It is with great pleasure that the SPS Department and EUDO welcome you to the lecture on “Popular Commitment to an Ever Closer Union? A Pragmatic Approach ”that will take place on Thursday 19 May at the Badia Fiesolana (Seminar Room 2).
Popular commitment to major policies requires awareness plus understanding as well as notional endorsement. When the spill-over of major EU policies produces negative feedback, as in the Euro zone crisis, integration by stealth is no longer feasible. Public support for the EU as it is should not be presumed to mean support for more integration. Moreover, there is significant misfit between the views of EP voters toward integration and the MEPs they vote for. The EU has not been able to generate popular commitment from its pre and post-Lisbon initiatives. Therefore, a pragmatic approach is suggested as a way of achieving integration without stealth. Unlike the Euro zone initiative, this would treating an ever closer union as a by-product of successful policies rather than as an end in itself.
We would be most grateful if you could extend this invitation to possible students/researchers/people interested in the subject.
For more information : http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Index.aspx?eventid=67281
Please register with EUDO.secretariat@eui.eu