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The institutional system of the European Communities is difficult to classify. The Community is much more than an intergovernmental organization: its Institutions have a definite legal status and extensive powers of their own. But (it is not)... on the other hand, ... a “federal government” with the national governments and parliaments subordinate to it in the spheres of its jurisdiction. It is perhaps safest to be non-committal and leave it to future historians to fit the system into one or other of the international lawyers’ categories, ourselves saying simply that it is a “Community” system.
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Gijlstra, D.J., Schermers, H.G., Völker, E.L.M., Winter, J.A. (1975). The Institutions of the European Communities. In: Gijlstra, D.J., Schermers, H.G., Völker, E.L.M., Winter, J.A. (eds) Leading Cases and Materials on the Law of the European Communities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6092-4_1
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