THE EUROPEAN-COMMUNITY AND EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT - HARMONIZATION, MOBILITY AND SPACE

Although the European Community does not possess many of the usual attributes of a nation state, it is none. the less expected to provide a framework within which Europe's economic and social problems might be governed. This paper examines the methods with which the Community has sought to establish the possibility of European government. The focus of the paper is on the single market programme and the associated project of 'harmonization'. It is argued that the harmonization project can be seen both as a way of realizing a novel organization of European space, and as a process directed at establishing this space as a governable entity. The paper examines the specific character of this spatial order, and its articulation with neo-liberal and neo-social democratic conceptions of European government.