The EU as a sui generis entity - who does not know this definition? We are very pleased to welcome to the podcast its author, Professor Joseph Weiler, one of the leading scholars in the field of European law. Together we had the opportunity to discuss the nature of the European project, the democratic deficit and the possible disconnection of European institutions from European citizens. There was also the centrifugal forces and the resistance of the member states' supreme courts to the principles of the primacy of EU law