2. False Solutions

1 D. Rodrik, ‘Rethinking democracy’, Project Syndicate [website] (11 June 2014). For a critical discussion see B. Crum, ‘Saving the euro at the cost of democracy?’, Journal of Common Market Studies 51/4 (2013).

2 J.-C. Juncker et al., Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (Brussels: European Commission, 2015). For an analysis, see N. Munin, ‘The Five Presidents’ Report: the dogs bark but the caravan moves on?’, European Politics and Society 17/3 (2016).

3 One example of such a survey of views is E. Labeye and S. Smit, ‘“The Europe we want!”: here’s how Europe’s policymakers should seize on their window of opportunity’, Europe’s World 31 (Autumn 2015).

4 ‘Para una nueva Europa’, El País (9 May 2016).

5 J. M. García-Margallo, ‘Pase lo que pase, más Europa’, El País (23 June 2016).

6 J.-M. Ayrault and F.-W. Steinmeier, ‘A strong Europe in a world of uncertainties’, France Diplomatie [website] (28 June 2016).

7 Launching the European Defence Fund, COM(2017)295 (Brussels: European Commission, 7 June 2017).

8 Committee on Constitutional Affairs, ‘Report on possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union’, European Parliament [website] (20 December 2016); Committee on Constitutional Affairs, ‘Report on improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty’, European Parliament [website] (9 January 2017).

9 White Paper on the Future of Europe, COM(2017)2025 (Brussels: European Commission, 1 March 2017).

10 J. A. Emmanouilidis et al., The 2017 Elections across Europe: Facts, Expectations and Consequences (Brussels: European Policy Centre, 14 March 2017).

11 B.-H. Lévy, ‘SOS Europa’, El País (7 March 2016).

12 J. A. Emmanouilidis (ed.), Towards a New Pact for Europe (Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the European Policy Centre, October 2014).

13 U. Guérot, Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! (Bonn: Verlag J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., 2016).

14 S. Fabbrini, Which European Union? Europe after the Euro Crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). For an exploration of this perspective, see also S. Champeau, C. Closa, D. Innerarity and M. Poaires Maduro (eds), The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice after the Euro Crisis (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015).

15 D. Tusk, Twitter post (30 May 2016).

16 J. R. Gillingham, The EU: An Obituary (New York: Verso, 2016), p. 191.

17 G. Delanty, ‘Europe’s nemesis? European integration and the contradictions of capitalism and democracy’, in S. Champeau, C. Closa, D. Innerarity and M. Poaires Maduro (eds), The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice after the Euro Crisis (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015), p. 143.

18 R. Rose and G. Borz, ‘Aggregation and representation in European Parliament party groups’, West European Politics 36/3 (2013).

19 I. Manners and R. Whitman, ‘Another theory is possible: dissident voices in theorising Europe’, Journal of Common Market Studies 54/1 (2016). See also the rest of the special edition that this article introduces.

20 S. Borg and T. Diez, ‘Postmodern EU? Integration between alternative horizons and territorial angst’, Journal of Common Market Studies 54/1 (2016).

21 B. Rosamond, ‘Field of dreams: the discursive construction of EU studies, intellectual dissidence and the practice of “normal science”’, Journal of Common Market Studies 54/1 (2016).

22 One example is T. Fazi, The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent and How We Can Take It Back (London: Pluto Press, 2014), p. 169.

23 G. Majone, Rethinking the Union of Europe Post-Crisis: Has Integration Gone Too Far? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 214.

24 R. Hilmer, The European Union Facing Massive Challenges – What are Citizens’ Expectations and Concerns? (Berlin: International Policy Analysis, 2016).

25 C. de Vries and I. Hoffmann, Fear Not Values: Public Opinion and the Populist Vote in Europe, EUpinions no. 2016/3 (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, November 2016).

26 A. Giddens, Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), ch. 3.

27 C. Booker and R. North, The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive? (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

28 Gillingham, The EU: An Obituary, ch. 6.

29 J. Grygiel, ‘The return of Europe’s nation-states’, Foreign Affairs (September/October 2016).

30 V. Pertusot (ed.), The European Union in the Fog: Building Bridges between National Perspectives on the European Union (Paris: Institut français des relations internationales, 2016).

31 See the chapters on each Visegrád state in P. Morillas (ed.), Illiberal Democracies in the EU: The Visegrád Group and the Risk of Disintegration (Barcelona: CIDOB, 2017).

32 Y. Varoufakis and A. Sakaris, ‘“One very simple, but radical, idea: to democratise Europe.” An interview with Yanis Varoufakis’, openDemocracy [website] (25 October 2015).

33 P. Manent, Democracy without Nations: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2013), p. 80.

34 Giddens, Turbulent and Mighty Continent, ch. 4.

35 R. Maxwell, ‘Cultural diversity and its limits in Western Europe’, Current History 115/779 (March 2016).

36 B. Rudloff and E. Schmieg, European Disintegration: Too Much to Lose, SWP Comments 21 (Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2016).

37 M. Leonard, ‘The migration superpowers’, Project Syndicate [website] (20 April 2016).

38 R. Rose and G. Borz, ‘Static and dynamic views of European integration’, Journal of Common Market Studies 54/2 (2016).

39 C. de Vries and I. Hoffmann, What Do the People Want? Opinions, Moods and Preferences of European Citizens, EUpinions no. 2015/1 (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2015).