Democracy and differentiation in Europe

Fossum, John Erik

doi:10.1080/13501763.2015.1020838

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“…firstly, this is an extraordinary case, because from the standpoint of the depth and diversity of integration processes, the european union has no equals among other economic and political supranational associations. also, the eu's case is extraordinary because it is highly likely that the current crisis could bring about a u-turn and return part of the powers to the level of national governments and parliaments, as well as the recognition of political, social, and economic disproportions between countries through the transition to a model of multi-speed integration (Piris, 2012;fossum, 2015;leruth and lord, 2015;martinico, 2015). The scale of the european project is favorable for the creation of a supranational identity, even more so, since at the early stages of euro-integration the creation of a united europe began to be linked at the official level with such matters as identity, common heritage, and cultural proximity (declaration on european Identity, 1973).…”

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Ефременко¹

2019

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The article explores the role of memory politics in building European identity. Memory politics is considered a functioning system of interactions and communication between different actors with regard to the political uses of the past. Memory politics is one of the key instruments for shaping the macro-political identity of a community. Supranational identity plays only a subsidiary role; at the supranational level, it is impossible to form a stable frame of collective memory. At the same time, European Union institutions are able to act as influential mnemonic actors to develop and implement various strategies of pro-European memory politics. Today, the strategy of recognizing the exceptional role of the Holocaust as a pan-European tragedy is subject to a fundamental revision in the EU. Attempts to "equalize" the crimes of Nazism and Communism indicate the search for an alternative mnemonic strategy. At

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2019

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“…The future of European integration became an increasingly debated issue (Rittberger and Blauberger, ). The possibility of the UK leaving the EU or Greece leaving either the EU or the eurozone surfaced, eurosceptic political parties became increasingly prominent across Europe, and so did the potential for European disintegration (Fossum, ; Leruth et al, ; Vollaard, , ).…”

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Exploring Differentiated Disintegration in a Post‐Brexit European Union

Leruth

Gänzle

Trondal

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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In the aftermath of the British referendum to leave the European Union and the European Commission's 'White Paper on the Future of Europe', it is not only time to take stock of the existing literature on differentiated integration, but also to rethink the perimeters of disintegration. We argue that phenomena such as Brexit embrace forms of differentiation which trigger the need for conceptualizing differentiated disintegration altogether. This article first sketches the path of the scholarly debate in a chronological way to grasp the breadth of existing literature. Second, it discusses differentiated disintegration as a potentially new area for research. Mapping several scenarios for future research, we propose that differentiated (dis)integration needs to be conceived as a negotiated, but profoundly path-dependent process, which is structurally locked-in, and deeply conditioned by pre-existing organizations and institutions of European integration.

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“…49 The European Parliament predictably would prefer any such assembly to be one of its subcommittees, in the same way that the Eurogroup is a subcommittee of the European Council. 50 In the project to design the next steps of EMU reform, a report was published at the end of June 2015 under the names of five presidents: Jean-Claude Juncker (President of the Commission), Donald Tusk (President of the European Council), Jeroen Dijsselbloem (President of the Eurogroup), Mario Draghi (President of the European Central Bank) and Martin Schulz (President of the European Parliament). 51 The report outlines a plan to deepen EMU and argues that the foundations of EMU need to be strengthened not only to ensure smooth functioning of the currency union but also to allow the member states to adjust to global challenges.…”

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Differentiation as a double-edged sword: member states’ practices and Brexit

Chopin¹,

Lequesne

2016

International Affairs

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Differentiation is a principle that has applied to the polity and policies of the European Union since its creation. It has been reinforced in the last 20 years as a consequence both of successive enlargements and of a broadening of the EU policy agenda. The British renegotiation process and the UK referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016 constitute a further stage in the debate on differentiation. For the first time a 'no' vote in a national referendum could mean that disintegration rather than differentiation is the preferred choice for an EU member state.The leaders of the EU member states, as well as scholars and analysts of the EU, have difficulty dealing with the concept of disintegration. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of them would like to see the UK referendum ending with a 'yes' vote. Yet this position is not necessarily shared by all segments of European public opinion. Those who have strong Eurosceptic concerns would like to use a Brexit as leverage in their own contests with the EU.This article considers the future of differentiation in the light of the debate on Brexit. To this end, the article has been divided into four parts. We start by examining the concept of differentiation in the EU from a theoretical perspective. In the second part, we analyse different national practices of differentiation in the member states. In the third part, we try to understand the reactions of the member states towards the British demand for renegotiation in order to avoid a Brexit, before drawing some conclusions in a fourth part. Differentiation: more integration or more fragmentation?Differentiation and integration are intricately linked. Differentiation may be defined as the process that allows some EU member states to go further in the integration process, while allowing others to opt not to do so. It therefore runs counter to the assumption of 'ever closer union' among the member states.The debate over differentiation revolves around the distribution of competences across all levels of government-local, regional, national and European. To be more precise, the question of differentiated integration arises as part of a debate * The authors would like to thank Douglas Webber for his comments on an earlier draft.INTA92_3_ChopinLequesne.indd 1

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Democracy and differentiation in Europe

Cited by 108 publications

References 22 publications

From Heaven to Earth

From Heaven to Earth

Exploring Differentiated Disintegration in a Post‐Brexit European Union

Differentiation as a double-edged sword: member states’ practices and Brexit

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