Symposium:
Mountain or Molehill?
A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

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Kenneth A. Armstrong ^**

This paper is a part of contributions to the Jean Monnet Working Paper
No.6/01, Symposium: Mountain or Molehill? A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

• 1. Introduction - Between Concrete Achievements and Disappointed Expectations
• 2. The Promises and Problems of 'European Civil Society'
• 3. The White Paper and the Rights and Responsibilities of European Civil Society
• 4. Conclusions - the Paradox of Transnational Civil Society and the Ironies of Myopia

* A very much expanded version of this paper will be published in the European Law Journal in 2002 as part of a Special Issues on Law and New Approaches to Governance co-edited by Joanne Scott and Dave Trubek. My thanks to them both and also to Francis Snyder who commented on an earlier draft presented to the European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference at Madison, Wisconsin, 2001. A somewhat different version of this paper will also be published in EUSA Review.

** Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law - Queen Mary, University of London. E-mail: k.a.armstrong@qmul.ac.uk.

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