EU political puzzle — core issue?
Imbalance between legal authority and capacities
Limits of integration theories — focus?
Negotiation and governance, not state-building
Security vs market logics — driver?
Security: military threats; Market: economic gains
EU law state gap — key feature?
Extensive legal authority, weak coercive capacity
Eurozone fiscal capacity — absence?
No centralized fiscal tools for crisis adjustment
Migration policy — main challenge?
Lack of EU enforcement power, reliance on national sovereignty
Frontex — role?
Support member states, limited enforcement
Schengen — purpose?
Ease internal borders, external border control remains national
COVID-19 — impact on union?
Tested resilience; crises seen as development, not end
Legal colossus — meaning?
EU law dominance, limited coercive power
Acquis communautaire — definition?
EU law body binding member states
State-building lens — approach?
Explains political development via capacity centralization
Neofunctionalism — theory?
Integration through supranational governance regimes
Multi-level governance — concept?
Authority across multiple levels, not centralized
EU security gap — reason?
Lack of EU-level coercive enforcement capacity
Market vs security — institutional path?
Market: incremental courts; Security: swift coercion
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