onstitution embodying principles of an optimal economic organization, there is no need for democracy at the EU level. Legitimation of the economic community is achieved by efficiency and liberty (Mestmcker 1999). There is thus a sharp division between politics which has to be subject to democratic control, but remains the exclusive to the member states and economics which is apolitical and thus beyond the need for democracy and has to be organized on the European level. This division is seen as a natural one based on the properties of the respective functional systems. The economic community should be institutionalized in a constitution as a constitution offers the best protection against opportunistic interests. This is particularly true for the European constitution (the EC Treaty), which can only be changed by unanimity and is thus even more immune to changes. Thus, in the ideal case, a societal order, which is considered to be ideal, is institutionalized in a form in which it is difficult to change it and its implementation is given to an organ that is not subject to any political control. Because of the separation of the economy from politics, internal and external security are tasks of the state and thus irrelevant for the EU. As the economic community is not a political one, it does not require whatever kind of collective identity and no symbolic integration. All in all, the separation of politics and the economy picks out a number of criteria for assessing the legitimacy and efficiency of the EU. Most important feature of the EC model is that it allows the co-existence of a European market together with national states and weaker European governance. Whether such institutional models would be sustainable in practice depends on solving the main problem of dividing economy and decisions powers. The Network Model. Territorial scope of the EC model does not apply to the network model, which is characterized by a multitude of instit...
