Flexible Europe

Flexible Europe
Author: Bellamy, Richard
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529219922

Clear, balanced and accessible, this book explores the alternative of a flexible European Union (EU) based on differentiated rather than uniform integration. They examine the circumstances and institutional design needed for flexibility to promote rather than undermine fairness and democracy within and between member states.

Flexible Integration

Flexible Integration
Author:
Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995
Genre: Den Europæiske Union
ISBN: 9781898128229

Flexible Integration is a model of reform designed to overcome the current stalemate between federalists and anti-federalists. It introduces more flexibility to accommodate the heterogeneous interests in Europe without risking the gains achieved through past integration. Flexible integration combines firm commitment by all members to a supranational common baseincluding a well-defined set of competences related to the Single Market - with optional integration in other areas through open partnerships.

Negotiating Flexibility in the European Union

Negotiating Flexibility in the European Union
Author: A. Stubb
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2002-04-15
Genre: 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.

The Flexible City

The Flexible City
Author: Tom Bergevoet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9789462082878

In Europe, the period of great economic and demographic growth is largely over. The physical growth of our urban agglomerations has come to an end. Unlike in Latin America, Asia or Africa, the boundaries of European cities are no longer moving away, but have come to a halt. The spatial assignment of the future European city will be fundamentally different. Building new space outside the city boundaries is no longer necessary. Instead, what exists should be made sustainable. The new spatial assignment involves maintaining, restructuring, densifying or diluting the existing city. This publication analyses this development and describes a toolbox that is able to turn the new assignment into a success. European cities are compared, similarities and trends are identifi ed and concrete examples are described in detail. This creates an inspiring handbook for anyone working on the future of the European city: from administrators and policymakers to developers, designers, builders and users.

Flexibility and European Unification

Flexibility and European Unification
Author: Alkuin Kölliker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742536135

Based on a theory of differentiated integration, this book investigates the dynamics of flexible European integration across EU policies and member states. By doing so, it provides a theory-based, comprehensive, and an empirical account of European integration from the perspective of legal differentiation.

Europe Reset

Europe Reset
Author: Richard Youngs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178673320X

In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about the need to reform the whole model of European integration, with the aim of making the union more flexible and more accountable. In this book, Richard Youngs proposes an alternative vision of European co-operation and shows how the EU must re-invent itself if it is to survive. He argues that citizens should play a greater role in European decision-making, that there should be radically more flexibility in the process of integration and that Europe needs to take a new, more coherent, approach to questions of defence and security. In proposing this model for a `reset' version of Europe, Youngs reinvigorates the debate around the future of Europe and puts forward a new agenda for the future of the EU.

Flexible Integration

Flexible Integration
Author: Alex Warleigh
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780826460936

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."

Politics in the European Union

Politics in the European Union
Author: Ian Bache
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199544816

This is an account of the main developments in the process of European integration. It provides coverage of theory, history, member states, institutions and policies, drawing on academic debates including issues of legitimacy and globalisation.

Reforming the European Union

Reforming the European Union
Author: Philip Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317888200

Analyses the likely future of the EU following next year's Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which is likely to be even more significant for the future of Europe than the Maastricht Treaty. Since Maastricht it has become clear that future developments are less certain with regard to the EU and integration. The IGC will have to try and resolve tensions such as: "widening" Europe to include former communist countries whislt also trying to "deepen" Europe with increased political and economic integration; providing a framework which is acceptable to a core of countries (Benelux, Germany, France) who favour more integration and an early move to monetary union with countries such as the UK, which does not.

British Environmental Policy and Europe

British Environmental Policy and Europe
Author: Philip Lowe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005-08-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134732457

Explores the effectiveness of British organisations and groups in the environmental field in responding to the challenge of European integration.