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{{Further|Constitution of the European Union}}

[[File:Blue Eiffel Tower - European Union.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[Eiffel Tower]], [[Paris]], [[France]].]]

{{cite book| last1 = Nugent| first1 = Neill| title = The Government And Politics of the European Union| pages = 550–553| year = 2006|edition=6th| publisher = Duke University Press| isbn = 978-0-8223-3870-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| editor1-first = Anand| editor1-last = Menon| editor2-first = Martin A.| editor2-last = Schain|chapter=Federation, Confederation, and Mixed Government: A EU-US Comparison| first1 = Giandomenico| last1 = Majone| title = Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective| pages = 121–148| year = 2006| publisher = Oxford University Press| isbn = 978-0-19-929110-6}}</ref> For this reason, the organisation has, in the past, been termed ''[[sui generis]]'' (incomparable, one of a kind), though it is also argued that this designation is no longer true.<ref name="Schütze, 2012"/><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ee.html | title = Is Europe still sui generis? Signals from The White Paper on European Governance |accessdate = 18 November 2012|quote=...&nbsp;we see the notions of governance deployed in the White Paper as undermining the description of the EU as sui generis. It is becoming like a national state, but we differ from many of the critics (or enthusiasts) of the White Paper in one major way. Rather than seeing the EU becoming a state-like object, taking on the trappings of a 19th – or more correctly 20th – century state, we see national states moving towards the EU, adopting many of the governing practices advocated by the White Paper. }}</ref>