ty of governance in the EU. In addition, however, they are more than artificial models because they can be also found in the conceptions of political parties in some member states about a legitimate political order for the EU. The Economic Community model. Although EC model is strongly influenced by particular German ways of thinking about the relationship between politics, law and the economy that is mostly accepted only in Germany, its features can be combined to a model of the EU which is not linked to particular look at institutions and society. In fact, it shows how the political order for the EU could look like and is more or less shared by several political parties in Britain, France, and Germany throughout the history of the EU (Jachtenfuchs/Diez/Jung 1996). The most important feature of the model is the separation of the market and the state, the co-existence of a single European market together with a number of distinct states on the same territory without a degree of political control equivalent to the degree of economic integration. In the framework of this model, economic integration is not only a necessary reaction to the requirements of a natural process of economic globalization but also an explicit goal. Both economic efficiency and individual liberty are best served by the institutionalization of a market economy, which among other factors assures free competition, respect of private property and a strict anti-cartel legislation. This should not be confused with the one of a free and self-regulating market. Social and economic order has to be constituted by legal rights and must be protected against egoistic interests of market participants. Because only a particular type of market economy best balances economic efficiency and individual liberty, the number of allowed interventions into the market is limited. As the citizen has only economic rights and obligation on the EU level, and these are conferred upon him by a c...
