https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Waiting-for-Europe https://booksandideas.net/Waiting-for-Europe 2017-10-02T07:00:00Z text/html en Laurent Warlouzet Politics Economy democracy European integration European Union Europe institutions <p>The treaty proposed by Piketty <i>et al.</i> makes it possible to overcome the sterile opposition between sovereignists and federalists. Yet, rather than democratizing Europe, the creation of a new assembly risks increasing the prevailing institutional confusion.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Europe-without-Government https://booksandideas.net/Europe-without-Government 2017-09-28T07:00:00Z text/html en Shahin Vallée Politics Economy democracy European integration European Union Europe institutions Institut français <p>The proposal by a group of academics to institute a parliament of the euro area has garnered considerable attention. However, according to S. Vallée, this institutional reform would hinder the development of a transnational European democracy. What follows is the first part of a debate between the authors and their critics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Brexit-Anomaly https://booksandideas.net/The-Brexit-Anomaly 2017-06-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Laurent Warlouzet Politics History European integration European Union Florence Gould Foundation United Kingdom Brexit <p>Given the United Kingdom's impending split from the European Union, Laurent Warlouzet shows how their complex relationship is the fruit of strategic co-operations, resulting from the vagaries of history, rather than of any “natural” isolationism.</p>