Book Description
Author examines the new clause of 'flexibility' in the Treaty of Amsterdam and asks whether this clause will be sufficient to deal with the EU in the 21st century.
Author : Kerstin Junge
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author examines the new clause of 'flexibility' in the Treaty of Amsterdam and asks whether this clause will be sufficient to deal with the EU in the 21st century.
Author : A. Stubb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1403907617
Alexander Stubb, a participant in the 1996-97 and 2000 Intergovernmental Conferences analyzes the evolution of flexible integration from the early 1970s to the present day and beyond. He focuses in the process of negotiations which led to the institutionalisation of flexibility in the Amsterdam and Nice Treaties. This book provides a valuable insider's view on historical decisionmaking in the European Union.
Author : José María Beneyto
Publisher : Fundación Univ. San Pablo
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 8492456965
The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty poses anew the question of whether, from now on, it will be more likely for the European Union to use this mechanism, or, conversely, the new institutional, jurisdictional and decision-making framework may act as a containment of favourable trends in the development of variable integration formulas. In reality, flexible or differentiated integration instruments, within or outside of the framework of the EU, alongside strictly intergovernmental cooperation between certain EU countries, have existed since the beginning of Community integration.
Author : Alex Warleigh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0567419053
Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This shift towards flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with more complexity and less transparency. It also affects the way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a state-like outcome to the process far less likely. Alex Warleigh looks at why flexibility has become such an important feature of the EU. He examines its history, and puts forward a typology to explain the models by which it is understood. He goes on to explore the hazards of flexibility and to look at what it has to offer, arguing that it is best seen as a desirable part of the integration process rather than as a problem. Flexibility, he argues is an important mechanism for the realization of the EU's slogan "unity in diversity".
Author : Robert Böttner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004459154
The Constitutional Framework for Enhanced Cooperation in EU Law analyses the primary-law framework of the flexibility tool of “enhanced cooperation”. Against the background of recent Member State practice, Robert Böttner redefines its constitutional rules and draws conclusions on its potential for European integration.
Author : Bruno De Witte
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1783475897
Differentiation was at first not perceived as a threat to the European project, but rather as a tool to promote further integration. Today, more EU policies than ever are marked by concentric circles of integration and a lack of uniform application. As the EU faces increasingly existential challenges, this timely book considers whether the proliferation of mechanisms of flexibility has contributed to this newly fragile state or whether, to the contrary, differentiation has been fundamental to integration despite the heterogeneity of national interests and priorities.
Author : Sandra Marco Colino
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
This paper focuses on how flexibility is envisaged in the new constitutional text. It does so by analysing the evolution of the method of enhanced co-operation from its origins through to the constitutional era. Using as point of departure an analysis of the history of flexibility and its manifestations throughout the life of the Communities, this paper analyses how enhanced co-operation has evolved from its original formulation in the Amsterdam Treaty and the minor Nice reforms to the Constitutional Treaty itself. The objective of the paper is to assess the achievements of the constitutional text as regards this method of co-operation and determine whether the new reform has established the pillars for the effective development of enhanced co-operation, or rather that another window of opportunity to make it a plausible and useful tool of integration has been squandered.
Author : Bruno de Witte
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : European federation
ISBN : 905095152X
The introduction by the Amsterdam Treaty of the flexibility clauses, authorising a majority of Member States to cooperate more closely in areas covered by the Treaties, has been received with mixed feelings. Flexibility is by no means a new phenomenon in the EU's development. It has been on the Community's agenda already since the 1970s. The Single European Act introduced several provisions allowing for flexible approaches to the single market, whilst the Maastricht Treaty launched a differentiated approach to the EMU and social policy. In addition to these forms of differentiation in primary Community law, for many years there has also been a number of quite important, though less visible, forms of differentiation in secondary Community law. This book aims to link both levels of differentiation and seeks to unveil the many faces of differentiation in EU law. It analyses whether, and to which extent, there is a shift in European integration from a system of unity and uniformity to one of flexibility and differentiation. A first series of contributions to the book analyse a number of exemplary policy fields (EMU, social policy, environment, free movement of persons, justice and home affairs) in order to identify their degree of differentiation. A second set of contributions examine various 'horizontal' institutional matters of cross-sectoral importance. These two main parts are framed by introductory articles on the development of flexibility and by contributions drawing on the constitutional limits to differentiation. The contributions are made by Dominik Hanf, José M. de Areilza, Jean-Victor Louis, Sean Van Raepenbusch, Ludwig Kramer, Georgia Papagianni, Grainne de Burca, Ellen Vos, Linda Senden, Sacha Prechal, Wouter Devroe, Deirdre Curtin, Bruno De Witte, Eddy De Smijter en Jan Wouters.
Author : G.K. van Hogendorp Centre for European Constitutional Studies
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789076871066
"The present publication ... is the updated edition of the proceedings of the Hogendorp conference of 1998. It incorporates the modified flexibility provisions of the Treaty of Nice."--Dust jacket.
Author : Roger Blanpain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN :
4. Fundamental rights in the EU - Frank Hendrickx