Perspectives on Federalism is a free on-line peer-reviewed journal, promoted by the Centre for Studies on Federalism.

1. Socialisation and legitimacy intermediation in the Council of the European Union
(Kamil Ławniczak/Essay)

... to decide by qualified majority. Socialisation is weakening the input legitimacy of decisions made in the Council, while at the same time enhancing their output legitimacy by favouring genuine consens ...

2. The Single Market and Synchronized Mechanisms for the Exercise of Administrative Functions: Converging Pathways or New Pathways for Integration? The Case of the European Banking Union
(Fabio Giglioni/Essay)

... through which the functions of supervision and resolution are affecting the single financial market. This case study is very interesting because these functions represent a genuine novelty in the history ...

3. Reforming the financing of the EU budget: Outlook
(Alessandro D'Alfonso/Essay)

... their possible advantages and drawbacks: 1) a simplified system based only on a resource related to gross national income; and 2) the introduction of new genuine own resources and the possible elimination ...

4. “Euro-Bonds” The Ruiz Zambrano judgment or the Real Invention of EU Citizenship
(Loïc Azoulai/Essay)

... the Union: a status of transnational integration. The basic claim developed in these pages is that, with Zambrano, the EUCJ moved away from a concept of transnational integration to one of genuine European ...