On Meaning and Promise of European Society

28 Pages Posted: 25 Nov 2024 Last revised: 7 Feb 2025

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Armin von Bogdandy

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Date Written: November 23, 2024

Abstract

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded to stipulate that European integration had ushered European society (Article 2 TEU). This choice remains underexplored. In light of current European uncertainty, the contribution explores meaning and promise of European society. The concept can counter the Europeans’ incomprehension of their union by integrating their heterogeneous European experiences into one familiar notion. It shows their conflicts as normal and possibly productive, occurring in one society rather than between discrete Member States. It suggests to understand their democracy as a principled struggle for compromise. Not least, European society substantiates the EU’s new principled constitutionalism that goes against excesses of the ‘will-of-the-people’ approach.

Keywords: European society, European societies, Article 2 TEU, integration, identity, republicanism, CJEU

Suggested Citation

von Bogdandy, Armin, On Meaning and Promise of European Society (November 23, 2024). Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 2024 - 30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5032634 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5032634

Armin Von Bogdandy (Contact Author)

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