POST-SECOND WORLD WAR FEDERALISM IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND ITS RECENT IMPULSE: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article investigates whether it is conceivable to construct a new federal model for the modern European Union on the basis of circumstances after the Second World War. The article also clarifies the rise of the European Union which had formed into a new style of confederation constructed to fit the European realities. Some scientists proposed that in the late twentieth century Europe was “in the midst of a paradigm shift from a world of states, modeled after the ideal of the nation-state developed at the beginning of the modern epoch in the seventieth century, to a world of diminished state
sovereignty and increased interstate linkages of a constitutionalized federal character”. The sources of this paradigm shift could be situated at the end of the Second World War; however, its broad and conclusive character was not completely accepted until the breaking down of the Soviet Union. The truth of this significant change is not that states are collapsing but rather that the state system is acquiring a new measurement which is currently starting to cover and overcome the system that prevailed through the modern period. The “federalist uprising” was not limited to advanced federations but rather integrated a variation of several federal arrangements constructed to accommodate internal divisions.