Paraphrasing Marx, one could say that a spectre is hunting Europe -the spectre of disintegration. The crisis of the Monetary Union, the pinnacle of European integration, seems to call into question the core assumption of more than half a century of Europe's integration history: the functionalist idea that economic integration would be self-sustaining and would ultimately lead to the emergence of a political community. This book presents evidence suggesting that the current crisis is not an accidental snag, but the collapse of the ideological architecture of Europe, showing that the...