A non-European European Union
Harb,Siba
Harb,Siba
Abstract
The European Union (EU) is a union among some of the wealthiest and most powerful states in the world. It is desirable to become part of it; indeed, many states would want to be part of it. However, only a handful of states are eligible to be considered for membership. We are normally wary of unions of powerful individuals that exclude less powerful individuals. And we ought to have concerns about the permissibility of having an exclusive union like the EU. Yet, and to the best of my knowledge, its status as an exclusive union has not been subject to question, certainly not in the philosophical literature on EU justice. In this paper, I focus on the legitimacy of one particular EU exclusion rule: For a state to be eligible for membership it must be European. I argue that this criterion is illegitimate.
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Funding Information: I am grateful to Andrea Sangiovanni and referees for this journal for comments. I would like to thank Sara Amighetti, David Axelson, Richard Bellamy, Johan Olsthoorn, Andrew Walton for valuable comments on previous versions and the audience at the 2019 workshop on Justice in the European Union at the European University Institute for a valuable discussion. This article is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 771635). 1 Funding Information: I am grateful to Andrea Sangiovanni and referees for this journal for comments. I would like to thank Sara Amighetti, David Axelson, Richard Bellamy, Johan Olsthoorn, Andrew Walton for valuable comments on previous versions and the audience at the 2019 workshop on Justice in the European Union at the European University Institute for a valuable discussion. This article is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 771635). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author. European Journal of Philosophy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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2022-02-04
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Immigration, Freedom, European Union, legitimacy
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Harb, S 2022, 'A non-European European Union', European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 515-529. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12766
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