The European Community as a Federal State: An investigation of the legal, legitimistic, political and cultural elements of the European Community as a federal state compared with the federal nation states Germany and Canada

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), language: English, abstract: The thesis of this work is that the European Community is a self-standing federal state with inadequate political power, as the Member States keep essential core competences in the fields of Foreign, Defence and Monetary Policy to themselves or limit them to the intergovernmental “p...