Abstract:The article examines the politics of French presidents towards European
integration, with the focus on President Macron's proposals concerning
European sovereignism. The authors apply the Liberal Intergovernmentalism,
which models the EU reforms as a three-stage process in which states first
define preferences, then engage in interstate bargaining, and finally design
common institutions. The main thesis of this article is that France has
relatively stable preferences - augmenting its power th… Show more
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