Integration into the European Union and its Impact on the Sovereignty of the Member States, as well as the Destiny of their Populations (in the area of their freedom and well-being)

Abstract

The provisions "The European Union ... on which the Member States confer competence to attain objectives they have in common", and "the creation of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe" of the Treaty of the European Union (Article 1, paragraph 1), are of paramount and unmatched importance to understand what the EU is, which its virtues and deficiencies are - virtus aut periculum - and in what direction it should go. By the aforementioned syntagm, the transfer (cessation of exercise by states) of sovereignty prerogatives phrase, meaning that the Member States assign some of their attributes as competences to the EU, is consecrated in a lapidary formula, which is being outlined to become a classic: the creation of the community legal order, and, according to our appraisal, the degree and the benefit of EU integration.