Download or read book Flexibility Enhanced Cooperation and the Treaty of Amsterdam written by Kerstin Junge and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Negotiating Flexibility in the European Union written by A. Stubb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Unity and flexibility in the future of the European Union the challenge of enhanced cooperation written by José María Beneyto and published by Fundación Univ. San Pablo. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Flexible Integration written by Alex Warleigh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".
Download or read book The Constitutional Framework for Enhanced Cooperation in EU Law written by Robert Böttner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Between Flexibility and Disintegration written by Bruno De Witte and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Towards Greater Flexibility Or Deadlock The Progress of European Integration Since the Introduction of Enhanced Cooperation written by Sandra Marco Colino and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Many Faces of Differentiation in EU Law written by Bruno de Witte and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Flexibility in Constitutions written by G.K. van Hogendorp Centre for European Constitutional Studies and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Institutional Changes and European Social Policies After the Treaty of Amsterdam written by Roger Blanpain and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4. Fundamental rights in the EU - Frank Hendrickx
Download or read book European Union After the Treaty of Amsterdam written by Jörg Monar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam was the result of thirty months of negotiation and major political debates in all the member states of the E.U. Praised as a triumph of the possible and a breakthrough in major policy areas by some, it has also attracted widespread criticism because of the reforms it postponed and the risks of fragmentation it introduced. Whatever its merits and deficiencies, it will have a major impact on the internal development of the E.U., its role in international relations, and the process of its enlargement to the Central and Eastern European countries.
Download or read book Enhanced Cooperation and European Tax Law written by Caroline Heber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enhanced cooperation mechanism allows at least nine Member States to introduce secondary EU law which is only binding among these Member States. From an internal market perspective, enhanced cooperation laws are unique as they lie somewhere between unilateral Member State laws and uniform European Union law. The law creates harmonisation and coordination between the participating Member States, but may introduce trade obstacles in relation to non-participating Member States. This book reveals that the enhanced cooperation mechanism allows Member States to protect their harmonised values and coordination endeavours against market efficiency. Values which may not be able to justify single Member State's trade obstacles may outweigh pure internal market needs if an entire group of Member States finds these value worthy of protection. However, protection of the harmonised values can never go as far as shielding participating Member States from the negative effects of enhanced cooperation laws. The hybrid nature of enhanced cooperation laws - their nexus between the law of a single Member State and secondary EU law - also demands that these laws comply with state aid law. This book shows how the European state aid law provisions should be applied to enhanced cooperation laws. Furthermore, the book also develops a sophisticated approach to the limits non-participating Member States face in ensuring that their actions do not impede the implementation of enhanced cooperation between the participating Member States.
Download or read book Division of Powers in European Union Law written by Theodore Konstadinides and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union has flourished and expanded over the last fifty years as a unique system that lies midway between a federal state and an anarchical international system. Different actors coexist within a cooperative hegemony of Member States, and the allocation of competences and decision-making among them has always been at the centre of the integration process. In fact, demands for clearer limits to the Unionands decision-making power and enduring tension over the nature and purpose of European integration have been the key drivers of integration and change. This deeply informed and thoughtful book thoroughly examines the manner in which the principle of division of powers has developed in EU Law over the course of European integration, and casts light on the path towards a more efficient delimitation of internal competence between the main actors: namely, the European Union and the Member States. Among the topics investigated in depth are the following: the place of the andcompetence provisionsand in the current and future EU Treaty structure; the scope and limits of the powers of institutional actors involved in EU decision-making; the contribution of the Court of Justice in declaring the pre-emptive effect and overarching precedence of Community law; the role of subsidiarity as a tool for monitoring the jurisdictional limits of the Communityands legislative competence; areas where andcreeping competenceand occurs; the constitutional checks and balances available to Member States against unprecedented expansion of EU competences; and the spectre of a powerful andcoreand Europe and a andmulti-speedand Europe of pacesetters and laggards. Addressing numerous crucial issues and among them the degree of permanence of the nation-state in a context of ambiguous constitutional authority, and the width of the democratic base of the Unionands andinstitutional dynamicand of cooperation and consensus and the author lucidly describes a seeming paradox: an andever-closer unionand, with a growing democratic legitimacy, congruent with a supranational community that falls short of a fully-fledged democratic political entity. The countless perspectives and clarifications discovered along the way are sure to engage academics and policymakers working in the fields of the European integration project, and will provide ample insights and food for thought.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice written by Finn Laursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a detailed analysis of the making of the Treaty of Nice, the current treaty of the European Union, adopted in 2000. It analysis the interests and strategies of the various actors, including the 15 Member States, during the negotiations and tries to explain the main institutional changes: re-weighting of votes in the Council of Ministers, future changes in the composition of the European Commission, extended use of qualified majority voting and easier conditions for a smaller group of Member States going faster in the integration process ('enhanced cooperation').
Download or read book The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of European Law and Policy written by Martin Trybus and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'After Lisbon the EU has reached a new precarious stage in its development. New institutions have been created and policies reformed. The different chapters of this book cover the most important innovations, while providing a fresh critical assessment of the shortcomings of the present arrangements. Works are always in progress at the EU site and the authors provide the future architects of this grand building as well as the academic community with much food for thought.' – Roberto Caranta, University of Turin, Italy This comprehensive and insightful book discusses in detail the many innovations and shortcomings of the historic Lisbon version of the Treaty on European Union and what is now called the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Divided into six parts, the 23 chapters provide 'after Lisbon' perspectives on law and governance of the EU, its powers and nature, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, EU external action and policy, justice and criminal policy, and economic governance. The authors, drawn from eleven EU Member States, offer a uniquely diverse and extensive coverage of the new EU law and policy after Lisbon. The book argues that while the Treaty of Lisbon has to be considered a milestone in the history of European integration, its shortcomings and open questions will make a future major treaty inevitable. The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of European Law and Policy will appeal to postgraduate students and academics in European law and policy, EU institutions, diplomatic missions, lobbying, NGOs, specialised lawyers and governments.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice and Beyond written by Mads Andenas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to succeed previous books on the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties,this new work includes contributions from leading EU lawyers assessing the Nice Treaty and the Post-Nice process, which is rapidly developing in the lead-up to the next Intergovernmental conference. The book's central theme is the discussion of a European Constitution and European Constitutionalism. The new constitutional balance after institutional reform, the Luxembourg courts after Nice, the future of the three pillar Treaty structure and the Human Rights charter are the other main topics. Among the contributors are the editors, Professor Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Professor Noreen Burrows (Glasgow), Professor Jürgen Schwarze (Freiburg), Professor Paul Craig (Oxford), Professor Jo Shaw (Manchester) Steve Peers (Essex) Professor Piet Eeckhout (King's College, London) and Professor Alan Dashwood (Cambridge).
Download or read book European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory written by T. Dyson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses European law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts. By exploring the balance of threat theory, it provides new insights into the forces driving and hindering European defence cooperation.
