Flashcards: The EU's State-Building Puzzle — 16 cards

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