Iwona Wronska: Is the EU a federal state?

Iwona Wronska:Is the EU a federal state?
Friday 1 November 13:00-14:00 York Hall A222
The EU is a unique supranational and intergovernmental organization. It is not a nation-state, but the structure bears a resemblance to a federation. For example the Canadian and the EU political system have a lot in common. I would like to argue that although member states do not want to acknowledge, the EU, in many ways, functions like a federal state.
Iwona Wronska, PhD, professor of Political Science at Jan Kochanowski University Kielce; Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge; post-doctoral Research Associate and lecturer in Political Science, Carleton University. She specializes in comparative politics, concentrating on political institutions of liberal-democratic states. Her research focuses on Canada and Europe with particular interest in migration policies and human right protection.