The Development of the Idea of the United Europe: Struggle Between Federation and Confederation

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“The Development of the idea of the United Europe: struggle between Federation and Confederation”

GEN 1722 Theory of State and Law

Student’s name: Zarina Aliaskarova

Student’s ID: 20112595

Instructor: Zhenis Kembayev, Professor of Law

Almaty, 2015

Table of Contents

1. Abstract………………………………………………………………………..3

1. Definitions and additional information……………………………3
2. Abbreviations……………………………………………………...4

1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………5

2.1 The Development of the idea of the United Europe……………….6

1. Main Body……………………………………………………………………..9

3.1 Supporters of the Federative Europe.……………………………...9

3.2 Followers of the Confederation concept…………………………11

3.3 The brawls between ideas and its supporters…………………….13

3.4 Current status of EU……………………………………………...15

1. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………16
2. Bibliography………………………………………………………………….17

1. Abstract

1.1 Definitions and additional information

1. Federation (from Latin: foedus, gen.: foederis, "covenant"), also known as a federal state, is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government.^[1]
2. Confederation (also known as confederacy or league) is a union of political units for common action in relation to other units.^[2]
3. The European Union (EU in the following text) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supernatural institutions and intergovernmental-negotiated decisions by the member states.^[3]

1.2 Abbreviations

CE – Council of Europe

EA – European Army

EDC – European Defense Community

EC – European Community

ECHR – European Court of Human Rights

ECSC – European Coal and Steel Community

EU – European Union

HA – Holy Alliance

OEEC  - Organization for European Economic Cooperation

SEA – Single European Act

SM – Single Market

UK – United Kingdom

USE – United States of Europe

UUEM – Unionist United Europe Movement

WWI – World War I (the First World War)