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The existence of the European Union may be seen as contradictory, manifesting paradoxes which are never resolved, merely postponed. This 5 page paper considers some of these, such as the conflict between a free trade union and free competition area and a democratic political organisations with federal tendencies. The paper also considers issues such as the historically defined paradoxical nature of Europe as both inclusive and fragmented and the way in which the union wishes to be a political and a social union. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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model and is a collection of paradoxes with the competing needs, requirements and interpretations of the different member states. This makes the EU, as an organisation, difficult categorise. The
initial idea was that of a free trade association with free competition, but as time has gone by there have been signs that the union is developing into a democratic
federal state whilst seeking to remain a union of independent sovereign states. There are many crossover between these concepts but there are some areas where there will be contradiction. In
looking at the EU these contradictions have never been resolved, but continue to be postponed with the aim of allowing the union to exist whilst these apparent contractions remain in
place. There are many forms of democracy. Looking for a definition of a democracy can we look to the work of Schumpeter then we may start with a
very broad definition of democracy "Democracy is a political method ... a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political--legislative and administrative-decisions" (Schumpeter, 1975; xvi). However it is the
process that we may look at with interest as he sees it as a competitive struggle, with individuals seeking to gain votes to gain the power as a result of
the popular vote (Schumpeter, 1975). This is a very simple view, and we can argue very accurate, it is for this reason that his view is seen as minimalist or
procesualist. This pragmatic description is of seen in over simplified terms, as in his book he develops this theory of democracy further. The need for competition in itself
does not mean that there can be a democracy, if the student considers this we know that there will be competition in Chinese elections, but this is not a democratic
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