دانلود کتاب تصور اروپا – رقابت فراملی و پوپولیسم مدنی

The European integration project is in need of being reinvented by its own citizens. This is one way of understanding the organization of the Conference on the Future of Europe, which was launched on 9 May 2021. The European Union faces several critical issues, not least related to the pandemic, and its public health and broader socio-economic implications. The pandemic is only the most recent challenge putting into relief structural deficits in the functioning and set-up of the European Union. The EU’s ‘defecting’ is most frequently related to as a ‘democratic deficit’, but more broadly involves a ‘constitutional deficit’. A significant dimension of the EU’s ‘falling short’ is due to a lack of imagination and a persistence of political elites and institutions in outdated modes of operation, largely grounded in a technocratic pursuit of ‘scientific rationalisation’, which subordinates politics to expertise.