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32 J. Common Mkt. Stud. 69 (1994)
Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France

handle is hein.journals/jcmks32 and id is 69 raw text is: Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 32, No. I March 1994 Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France ROBERT LADRECH Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame I. Introduction During the spring and summer of 1992, the referendum campaign over ratifica- tion of the EC Treaties on Economic and Political Union finally engaged in public the ramifications of EC integration for France. At the core of the debate, for both proponents and opponents of the Treaty alike, was the nature of French national identity in a post-1992 Europe. Hoffmann has suggested that current fears about French national identity include a focus on the European Commu- nity, which 'often decides against French interest, which moves toward a concept of European citizenship that goes against the Jacobin strain ... and whose institutional system is far closer to the German Federal model than to the French unitary one' (Hoffman, 1992, p. 33). This article analyses the process of Europeanization in France, especially as it impacts domestic politics and institutions. Hoffman's mention of citizenship is one such issue. These trends not only impact the institutional realm of politics, for example constitutional revision, but other areas as well, such as the relationship between national and subnational policy-making, with the suprana- tional (the EC) increasingly woven into the matrix. Europeanization is an incremental process reorienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that EC political and economic dynamics become part of the organizational logic of national politics and policy-making. In the case of France, two areas are @ Basil Blackwell Ltd 1994, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 I IF, UK and 238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. USA

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