Flexibility in the EU and Beyond: How Much Differentiation Can European Integration Bear?

Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich; Desirée C. Schmitt; Sebastian Zeitzmann LL.M.

doi:10.5771/9783845277714

Summary

The EU is going through a difficult phase: The euro and refugee crises are still unresolved, the solidarity between Member States is eroding, the UK stands on the brink of an exit, nationalist forces are gaining increasing support in many Member States, the support for European integration is diminishing and EU foreign policy is focused on combating crises.

The union appears too heterogeneous and the economic and political interests of the 28 Member States too diverse to be able to tackle these challenges as a whole. Does the concept of differentiated integration offer a possible solution? Can such differentiation offer the European integration project a better and more stable future? Which measures of diversity and flexibility can the “ever closer Union among the peoples of Europe” endure? Or will such differentiation ultimately damage the joint European project?

These questions and others were the focus of an international and interdisciplinary conference at the European Academy of Otzenhausen in April 2016 that was organized by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich. The results of this conference are contained in this volume.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2017
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-3436-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-7771-4
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Schriften des Europa-Instituts der Universität des Saarlandes - Rechtswissenschaft
Volume: 104
Language: English
Pages: 495
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
List of Abbreviations No access Pages 11 - 14
1. How to Reconcile the Forces of Enlargement and Consolidation in “an Ever Closer Union” No access Pages 15 - 58
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2. The Development of Flexible Integration in EC/EU Practice No access Pages 59 - 86
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3. A Rather Strange Animal, this “Enhanced Cooperation” – May it Serve as King of the European Zoonion? or: Is Enhanced Cooperation Anywhere Near a Constitutional Principle? No access Pages 87 - 106
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1. Comparing Opt-Outs: How Different is Differentiated Integration No access Pages 107 - 122
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2. Elements of Differentiation Within the Schengen Acquis and the Prüm Convention No access Pages 123 - 138
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3. The Common Foreign and Security Policy – A Pool of Flexibility Models No access Pages 139 - 160
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4. How Independence Movements Trigger Flexibility in the EU No access Pages 161 - 182
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5. Deepened Integration in the Eurozone? No access Pages 183 - 194
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6. The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance and the ESM Treaty: Intergovernmental Arrangements Outside EU Law, but for the Benefit of the EMU? No access Pages 195 - 224
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7. How Much Flexibility Can European Integration Bear in Order to Face the Eurozone Crisis? Reflections on the EMU inter se International Agreements Between EU Member States No access Pages 225 - 250
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8. Rome III Regulation: Getting Divorced in Europe No access Pages 251 - 268
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9. The End to a Never-Ending Story? The Unitary Patent Regime No access Pages 269 - 282
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1. The Trials and Tribulations of the Benelux No access Pages 283 - 296
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2. The Swiss Way: 120 Agreements but no Perspective? No access Pages 297 - 314
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3. Differentiation and EU Neighbourhood Policy: A Need for Change? No access Pages 315 - 336
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4. An American Perspective on EU Flexibility and Differentiation No access Pages 337 - 348
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5. The Perception of Flexible Integration in Southeast Asia No access Pages 349 - 360
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6. What Does the German Basic Law Say on Flexible Integration? No access Pages 361 - 380
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7. Outside, but not that far: Strasbourg’s Perspective – The European Union and the Council of Europe No access Pages 381 - 406
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8. How Flexible Is the World Order? What We Can Learn from the United Nations No access Pages 407 - 430
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9. Variable Geometry in WTO Law and Policy: Lessons for the European Union No access Pages 431 - 448
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1. Within and Without “Ever Closer Union” No access Pages 449 - 460
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2. The Limits of Differentiated Integration in the EU and the Way Forward No access Pages 461 - 478
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3. Making a New Start on a Smaller European Basis: An Alternative to Differentiation No access Pages 479 - 492
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List of Authors and Editors No access Pages 493 - 495