nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160614-142324 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160613s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160614-142324 doi eng 342 23 Schöpflin, György Author aut The European Union and the Erosion of State Capacity Schöpflin, György Verfassungsblog 2016-06-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The broad assumption in Europe is that member states of the European Union inherently have the capacity to implement EU legislation. This proceeds from the general understanding of Weber’s definition of the modern state as having a monopoly of legal violence within its territory. To this can be added the capacity of the state to “read” the population, to know through censuses, registers data bases who the inhabitants of the state are and, for that matter, where they are; the ability to impose taxes; and the capacity to sustain the uniform distribution of authority. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Migration State Capacity tax base erosion tax havens Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-european-union-and-the-erosion-of-state-capacity/ raw object