ABSTRACT
From 2010 onwards, issues related to sovereignty have been at the forefront of European Union (EU) politics, not only in the midst of the Eurozone crisis but also during the refugee crisis in 2015 and the debates surrounding Brexit. This has triggered unprecedented levels of contention about the values underpinning the EU common policies and what is perceived by many as new losses of sovereignty. Since the early days of the European Communities, scholars have sought to establish how and to what extent integration and globalization has transformed sovereignty both de iure and de facto. The traditional, state-centred conception of sovereignty postulates that sovereignty is located at one particular level of power, the parliament and the government emanating from it. In the aftermath of the devastation of World War II, political actors and intellectuals alike devoted particular attention to the ways in which one day men might abolish war.
