Explain and Understand the EU in the Context of its Crisis.

Resumo

The European Union is nowadays walking through a very deep crisis. That is the reason why it cannot be today understood, or even be explained properly, unless we take account of this situation and its future consequences. The economic crisis and its effects; democratic deficit of the integration process, the arise of strong euroscepticisim positions across Europe, the very recent “Brexit”; intergubernamentalism preponderance inside the institutional framework, drama of refugees at European, controversy about international agreement on free trade like TTIP or TISA, the “No” of Dutch referendum on Ukraine-EU agreement, the Troika policies… All of them are epitomes of an integration process that is in a critical situation. Nor Students nor Professors can turn their back to this reality. This must be critically analysed in order to find out solutions to this grave position. It is time to apply a new epistemology, which will focus on real problems and factual contradictions inside of European Union. In our view, that is the only way to advance into a better EU. So this book pretends to be an instrument to reflect on the problems of integration process and how could they be resolved. It has been configured as teaching material to explain the EU subjects at Law Faculty at UEx. And I hope that could be useful to all Professors and Students that would like to approach to EU Studies through the factual problems of EU integration process. The book is divided into four parts: constitutional Issues, Institutions, Rights and EU Policies. Each part is focused on a different kind of problems and realities of EU.