EU between Federal Union and Flexible Integration

Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt is Professor of European Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University, Sweden.Per Ekman is a researcher in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.Anna Michalski is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University and Senior Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Lars Oxelheim is Professor of International Business and Finance at University of Agder, Norway, Professor Emeritus at Lund University and affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden.

• Chapter 1. The road ahead for the European Union: between federal union and flexible integration (Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Per Ekman, Anna Michalski and Lars Oxelheim).- Chapter 2. Enlargement and the watering down of democracy: A Union in existential crisis (Daniel Silander).- Chapter 3. The state of rule of law in Europe: The EU in a limbo between federalism and flexible integration (Anna Södersten).- Chapter 4. Parliament as an arena for political opposition to EU policy: wasteland or conflict zone? (Christer Karlsson, Moa Mårtensson and Thomas Persson), etc.