No. 8 (2015): Philosophy and the Future of Europe
Session 1. Europe: Ideals and Reality

Perché è necessaria e com’è possibile la trasformazione dell’Unione europea in una democrazia sovranazionale

Jürgen Habermas
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

Published 2015-12-22

Keywords

  • European constitution,
  • crisis,
  • democracy

How to Cite

Habermas, J. (2015). Perché è necessaria e com’è possibile la trasformazione dell’Unione europea in una democrazia sovranazionale. Phenomenology and Mind, (8), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-17732

Abstract

The European Union is at the crossroads between intelligent expansion of future horizons and frightened shrinking to a perspective of local areas. Fear of descent of the citizens on one side and a politics of crisis, that goes along with harsh injustice have made upset the national societies against each other, missing courage on the side of politicians, to bring European issues to the fore, endanger the European project. There is only one way to overcome this situation by establishing a democratic union, which conserves not only the social and civilian achievements of the national state, as well as the assets of a greater democratic political unity, that offers an unity of European citizens and European state demos.

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