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Uniting Europe: The Council of Europe's Unfinished Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2012

Klaus Brummer
Klaus Brummer
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University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Political Science, Kochstr. 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Email: Klaus.Brummer@polwiss.phil.uni-erlangen.de
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Abstract

The Council of Europe (CoE) is an essential building block of the European integration process. However, the organisation is confronted with fundamental challenges relating to the erosion of its core principles, the overload of the ECHR system and the expansion of the European Union. These developments put the CoE's future in jeopardy. Yet, there are three reasons why the organisation should have a future: the CoE has the potential to become the key forum for dialogue between Europe and Russia, it could make further contributions to a European stability policy, and it could continue to build a pan-European legal space.

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Citizenship, Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship
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European Review , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , 02 May 2012 , pp. 403 - 418
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2012

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