The EU Principle of Subsidiarity and Its Critique
Author: Antonio Estella de Noriega
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780199242429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The European Union principle of subsidiarity was introduced by the Maastricht Treaty and was the subject of a protocol in the Amsterdam Treaty. It was intended as a last-resort protection mechanism for member states in a minority on a particular issue in the Council of Ministers. In the first book devoted to the subject the author analyses these constitutional reforms and the reluctance of the ECJ to implement them, and argues that the principle will not be able to perform this protective role effectively.