Crisis of the European Union

Andreas Grimmel is Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Hamburg and at the Institute for European Integration, Europa-Kolleg in Hamburg, Germany.

• Introduction: The Many Challenges of the European Union Part I: Perspectives on a Troubled Project1. Understanding European Union Governance: Political Challenges of the Integration Project 2. Europe’s Unfinished Community of Law: Legal Challenges of the Integration Project3.The Design of the EMU at the Heart of the EU's Crisis? Economic Challenges of the Integration Project4. Uneven Development, Partial Europeanization, and Nationalist Retreat: Societal Challenges of the Integration ProjectPart II: The Many Faces of the European Crisis 5. The Hegemony of Disorder: The Persistence of Financial Turmoil in the EU6. Nationalism, Populism and Re-birth of Statehood in Europe7. Independence and Separatist Movements: Europe between Integration and Disintegration 8. Is the Migration Crisis a Solidarity Crisis? 9. A Europe of Dropouts? The Brexit and the Question of European Solidarity10. Social Europe still Missing? Flaws of the Spillover Process as the Motor of IntegrationPart III: How to Improve the EU’s Problem-Solving Capacities11. When There Are No Winners, Only Losers: The European Crisis and the Interest Paradigm 12. Intergovernmental Method, Community Method, and Open Method of Coordination: The Resilience, Efficiency and Legitimacy of the EU’s Modes of Governance13. Segmentation, Differentiation and the Aims of European Integration14. Democratic Innovations Beyond the State 15. The EU’s Model of Regional Integration in a Functionally Differentiated World SocietyEpilogue: There’s Life in the Old Dog Yet! Challenges as Catalyst for European Integration

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