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Julien Barroche, « Discourse and the Practice of Subsidiarity in the European Union since the Maastricht Treaty », Droit et société, ID : 10670/1.9869be...
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The principle of subsidiarity is less a formal rule to be applied than a resource, among numerous others – discursive and practical – at the disposal of the European Union’s members. In its Maastricht formulation, the syntagm mainly allowed the reconciliation of the irreconcilable at the heart of European functionalism: distributing competences not as a result of the legally covered subjects, but as a consequence of politically set imperatives. Nonetheless, since the Maastricht Treaty, numerous conflicts of interpretation have successively opposed or bound together the Commission, the governments of member states, the Court of Justice, and national parliaments. Thus, the absence of a clear definition of the principle of subsidiarity has led to an enrichment of the resource’s potential.
