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4 Eur. L.J. 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/eurlj4 and id is 1 raw text is: European Law Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 1-4 C Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1998, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA Editorial Francis Snyder 'Thank you' are the first words of this Editorial. As founder of the ELJ, and also personally, I would like to thank Blackwells our publishers and the European University Institute and its Law Department for their support in helping us to launch the ELJ. First, Blackwells, and in particular Sue Corbett and her team, have been model publishers: helpful, skilful, patient, and constantly supportive of our efforts to introduce a new approach to scholarship on European Union law. Second, the European University Institute made a financial contribution for the first three years of the EL/s existence to the costs of copy-editing, preparation of bibliographies, and related expenditure involved in creating a new academic journal. Together with the funds provided by Blackwells, this seed money has been indispensable in helping us to produce a new kind of European law journal, and one which students, academics, and others seem to look forward to reading. I wish to express my personal gratitude to the late Emile NoMl, who was President of the EUI when the ELJ began, and to Dr Patrick Masterson, the current President of the EUI, for their wholehearted support of the ELJ. Third, but not least, the EUI Law Department generously agreed about two years ago to contribute half of one of its Jean Monnet Fellowships in order to attract someone who in addition to carrying out his or her own research as a JMF would assume the role of Managing Editor of the European Law Journal. This arrangement started with the current Managing Editor, and I am very glad to be able to acknowledge the contribution of the Jean Monnet Fellowship and the support of the EUI Law Department in helping us to put into practice our vision of what exciting scholarship on European Union law should be about. This issue of the ELJ, we hope, exemplifies this same vision. The article by Majone addresses two of the central questions in current debates regarding the future of the European Union: First, how can we best conceive of the European Union? In the terms of a constitutional discourse (which, on my reading, Majone does not necessarily reject), what is the most useful heuristic model for imagining the constitution of the European Union? In other words, bearing in mind that Majone is concerned with the European Community, not the European Union, how should we think of the EC/EU as a developing polity or, at least, as part of a developing policy? This last phrase, of course, pinpoints one of the main issues: is the EC/EU to be conceived as such, on its own, or should we think of the polity as being composed of both the EC/EU and the Member States taking both the former and the latter together, and if so, how? The second and related question is: how is the EC/EU to be legitimated? Is there a 'democratic deficit' in the EC/EU, and in precisely which respects? The answers to these questions depend crucially on our response to the first question.

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