Beschreibung:
The EU is currently facing some fundamental challenges: the euro and refugee crises are still unresolved, the solidarity between Member States is eroding, and nationalist forces are growing as support for European integration is diminishing. The union appears too heterogeneous, and the economic and political interests of the 28 Member States too diverse, to be able to address 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? This collection of leading European lawyers tackles these questions and suggests how they might be addressed. --
How to reconcile the forces of enlargement and consolidation in "an ever closer union" / Thomas Giegerich -- The development of flexible integration in EC/EU practice / Robert Böttner -- 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? / Sebastian Zeitzmann -- Comparing opt-outs : how different is differentiated integration / Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu -- Elements of differentiation within the Schengen Acquis and the Prüm Convention / Pascale Joannin -- The common foreign and security policy : a pool of flexibility models / Sebastian Graf von Kielmansegg -- How independence movements trigger flexibility in the EU / Katharina Crepaz -- Deepened integration in the Eurozone? / Christian Deubner -- The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance and the ESM Treaty : intergovernmental arrangements outside EU law, but for the nenefit of the EMU? / Gianni Lo Schiavo -- 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 / Clelia Lacchi -- Rome III Regulation : getting divorced in Europe / Bérénice Lemoine -- The end to a never-ending story? : the unitary patent regime / Thomas Jaeger -- The trials and tribulations of the Benelux / Jan Wouters, Maarten Vidal -- The Swiss way : 120 agreements but no perspective? / Astrid Epiney, Sian Affolter -- Differentiation and EU neighbourhood policy : a need for change? / Christoph Schnellbach -- An American perspective on EU flexibility and differentiation / William T. Daniel -- The perception of flexible integration in Southeast Asia / Clara Portela -- What does the German Basic Law say on flexible integration? / Hermann-Josef Blanke -- Outside, but not that far: Strasbourg's perspective : the European Union and the Council of Europe / Jörg Polakiewicz -- How flexible is the world order? : what we can learn from the United Nations / Manuela Scheuermann -- Variable geometry in WTO law and policy : lessons for the European Union / Thomas Cottier -- Within and without "ever closer union" / Pedro Cruz Villalón -- The limits of differentiated integration in the EU and the way forward / Jo Leinen, Fabian Pescher -- Making a new start on a smaller European basis : an alternative to differentiation / Giorgio Maganza