%0 Journal Article %1 josselin_how_2006 %A Josselin, Jean-Michel %A Marciano, Alain %D 2006 %J Rev Int Org %K Agency Centralization, Court D72, EU, Economics European Federation, H11, History Justice, K10, N41, Political Science, Sciences, Social Union, general general, of the theory, %N 1 %P 59--75 %R 10.1007/s11558-006-9001-y %T How the court made a federation of the EU %U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-006-9001-y %V 2 %X We analyze the European institutional integration that took place in the 1950s and 1960s as a two-stage process. Firstly, an explicitly political project aims at establishing a European political community. The project is abandoned in the mid-1950s and political integration stops. At that time, the institutions of the Union take the form of a confederation. In a second stage, because of the failure of the European political community, a legal process of integration driven by the European Court of Justice takes place. This second stage of unification is more centralizing and in effect leads to a federalization of the European institutional structure. The transformation of the political structure of the European Union thus appears to result from the actions and decisions of a legal entity, the European Court of Justice.

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