Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Clément Marc
    Pax Europeana, la romanité de l'Europe par le droit
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 553, décembre ,  2011 ,  629-635
    The European nion is a community governed by the rule of law and this aspect, far from being a simple technical element, is, in reality, constitutive of the very nature of the EU. In this, the European Union follows the Roman tradition of law, in which it makes the legal instrument the means of connecting people of diverse traditions and of developing a legal art from concrete situations. The pragmatism of European law may be linked to that of Roman law. It is therefore possible to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of European integration which result directly from the characteristics of the legal instrument. When the law is able to provide an effective medium for integration, the European Union obtains very significant results, for example, for the environmental law. By contrast, in some sectors, such as economic governance or social legislation, the dominant impression is rather one of incompletion. The pragmatism of Roman law must be a source of inspiration in order to find legal instruments which enable progress in these domains.
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