Sergio FabbriniCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 2/26/2015EAN 9781107503977, ISBN10: 1107503973Paperback, 376 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cmLanguage: EnglishSergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into question. The book argues that a new European political order is necessary to deal with the consequences of the crisis, based on an institutional differentiation between the EU member states interested only in market co-operation and those advancing towards a genuine economic and monetary union. Such a differentiation would allow the latter group to become a political union, conceptualised as a compound union of states and citizens, while preserving a revised framework of a single market in which both groups of states can participate.Prefacehow many Unions?Part I. Institutionalisation of Multiple Unions1. From Rome to the Lisbon Treaty2. The Lisbon Treaty and the Euro Crisis3. Institutionalisation and constitutional divisionsPart II. Main Perspectives on the European Union4. The perspective of the economic community5. The perspective of intergovernmental union6. The perspective of parliamentary unionPart III. Towards the Compound Union Perspective7. Comparing democratic models8. Compound unions and the EU9. A new political order in Europe.