BOOK REVIEW European Democracy and Single Market: 30 Years of the Maastricht Treaty

Abstract

M.J. Garcia Garcia, A.M. Romito (eds.) Democracia europea y mercado unico: 30 anos del Tratado de Maastricht, Fondo Editorial Aranzadi, 2024

The book under review focuses on two of the most important aspects of the development of the EU integration process – the strengthening of the EU founding value of democracy and the achievement of the EU Single market objective following the entering into force of the Maastricht Treaty. The collective volume features authors coming from different national and academic backgrounds. The democracy-market nexus is approached from a number of perspectives, not always much explored in the past. The analyses seems to suggest that a durable evolution of the EU integration process can only be based on basic principles or founding values of the EU, like in the case of democracy, which is one of the most important ingredients for a European Single market, focused more on social and environmental issues rather than economic ones.

JEL: Y30