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Part I of this book presented the development of the European Union as a sovereignty-sharing organisation. Part II sought to justify the claim that the sharing of sovereignty had developed effectively only within one regional organisation, the EU, and that no other actual or potential organs of global governance had developed in such a way. It remains in Part III to suggest how the European Union might become the catalyst for the development of a Global Union, that is to say a global sovereignty-sharing organisation.
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Statement of the European Commission, ‘The European Union and the United Nations: the choice of multilateralism’, 10th September 2003, COM (2003) 526 final. See also Geoffrey Edwards account of ‘The Pattern of the EU’s Global Activity’, in Hill, Christopher and Smith, Michael (eds) International Relations and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Effective multilateralism, he declares, ‘has long been a cornerstone of the EC/EU’s external relations’ (op. cit., p. 41).
The ancient University of Louvain or Leuven was split in 1968 following protests by Dutch-speaking students objecting to the presence of French professors and classes. They managed to break the university up. The central library holdings were divided into two (insofar as they could be) and French speakers founded a new university on a greenfield site at Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia. See ‘The stateless state: why Belgium matters’, in Judt, Tony Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, pp. 240–1 (New York: Penguin, 2008).
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Andeatta, Filippo ‘Theory and the European Union’s International Relations’, Chapter 2 of Hill, Christopher and Smith, Michael (eds) International Relations and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). The quotation is on p. 25.
Telò, Mario ‘The European Union and the Challenges of the Near Abroad’, Chapter 11 of Telò, Mario (ed.) European Union and New Regionalism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). The quotation comes from p. 229.
Seidelmann, Reimund ‘The EU’s neighbourhood policies’, in Telò, Mario (ed.) The European Union and Global Governance, p. 281, note 10 (London: Routledge, 2009).
See Vasconcelos, ‘European Union and MERCOSUR’, Chapter 8 of Telò, Mario (ed.) European Union and New Regionalism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
Martinez, Luis ‘EU’s exportation of democratic norms: the case of North Africa’, Chapter 8 of Laidi, Z. (ed.) EU Foreign Policy in a Globalised World (London: Routledge, 2008).
A study in 2004 had already put illegal migration levels at an annual figure of half a million. See Jandl, M. ‘The estimation of illegal migration in Europe’, Migration Studies, XLI, 153 (March 2004), p. 150.
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Delanty, Gerard and Rumford, Chris Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanisation (London: Routledge, 2005) but it is also used by works like Dallago’s where the emphasis is very much upon institutional factors. See, for instance, the discussion of ‘the Europeanisation of the Balkans’ (Dallago, op. cit., p. 206).
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Corner, M. (2010). Current EU Thinking. In: The Binding of Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274952_8
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