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Beyond the intergovernmental approach


The European Union, as we know it today, is the product of 50 years of intergovernmental approach. Every contribution, whatever the field, has been credited to the European construction after having been duly validated at each level in the particular context of local political forces of the time.
Up This result was not so bad.
However, it is clear that this approach has reached its limits. The institutions created by governments have received all the powers that the heads of national executives could reasonably transfer within the scope of their legal mandate and without damaging their interests. The next step is the transfer to the Union of a core of political power that allows direct management of European affairs at the EU level. Many topics deserve to be managed directly at the European level. The main ones are: energy, environmental, technological risks, the post-industrial society and foreign affairs (especially the Middle East and relations with Russia). These are issues of global concern and specific national solutions have little chance of success.
limit the intergovernmental approach is mainly due to the synchronization of national political agendas. What interest would have to wait for Nicolas Sarkozy European initiative on the environment as he has been elected and thus has the legitimacy to impose its priorities in France and then to propose for negotiating with other countries? Yet on this particular example, start with a debate at European level would be more effective because, ultimately, only a common and harmonized can provide viable solutions.
That's why the Europeans should take over initiatives from national governments and join a direct form and pan-European debate and political action. This effort is necessary for the emergence of real political forces transnational. These forces will then be a basis for the construction of the Political Union in Europe beyond the intergovernmental attempts to resolve the institutional crisis.
The European elections of June 2009 will be the next opportunity for citizens to take precedence over the intergovernmental approach.