Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization

Schimmelfennig, Frank; Winzen, Thomas

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1264083

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“…The actual effects of enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the EU might be minor, but it is the perceived effects that might prove to be more consequential in the long run. Decision-making capacity is only one aspect of the internal dimension of the integration capacity of the EU (Börzel et al 2017), but its perceived inadequacy can still undermine the entire construct. which in its turn is a major aspect of the internal dimension of the integration capacity of the EU (Börzel et al 2017).…”

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The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union

Toshkov¹

2017

European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity

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This contribution investigates the impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union. On the basis of new data on the number and types of legal acts produced by the EU and on the time between the proposal and adoption of legislative acts (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), the contribution argues that enlargement has had a rather limited impact on legislative production and duration and that it is extremely hard to disentangle this impact from other contemporaneous institutional and socioeconomic developments. On the basis of analyses of expert-based policy positions of member states in EU negotiations and on voting data from the Council of Ministers of the EU, it is argued that enlargement has possibly added a new dimension of contestation in EU legislative decision-making, but one that concerns a relatively small share of all negotiations in few policy fields like environment. All in all, there is no evidence that the Eastern enlargement has led to the institutional gridlock and loss of decision-making capacity that the public, many politicians and some academics as well have feared.

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The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union

Toshkov¹

2017

European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity

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“…Between 2012 and 2017, Schimmelfennig and his colleagues published a series of in‐depth studies examining various aspects of differentiated integration, such as constitutional differentiation (Schimmelfennig and Winzen, ), the impact of EU enlargement on differentiated integration (Schimmelfennig, ; Schimmelfennig and Winzen, ), and the impact of differentiation on EU governance (Schimmelfennig, ). Further studies also focused on differentiated integration within EU legislation, which demonstrate the increasing complexity of EU law and law‐making (see Duttle et al, ; Kroll and Leuffen, ).…”

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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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“…It has not been regionally specified even in the several stages of the Copenhagen learning process with the long debates about the "differentiated integration" (see EP 2018 or e.g. Schimmelfennig and Winzen 2017). The slower steps were allowed in this approach, but the basic automatism between the economic growth in the GDP terms and the sustainable democratization has remained the main expectation despite the lessons learned about the negative spill -over and its collateral damages.…”

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Rethinking the historical trajectory of ECE: From the “original sin” in democratization to redemocratization

Ágh

2020

Politics in Central Europe

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This paper treats East-Central Europe as a region and investigates its common historical trajectory in the last decades. After 30 years of systemic change and 15 years of EU membership, it is high time for the re-evaluation and reconceptualization of the Europeanization and Democratization process in ECE. It is the key to understand the false start as the original sin in democratization and the reasons of ECE divergence from mainstream EU developments in order to prepare the redemocratization process. The progress of the Europeanization and Democratization process in ECE has been widely described in official documents, but for a balanced and complete picture it is necessary to present also the De-Europeanization and De-Democratization process from the very beginning. Basically, after the collapse of the bipolar world order in 1989, the Eastern enlargement was an economic and political necessity as a substantial part of the EU deepening and widening policy. The EU needed the extension of its economic space and political system that had also been pre-programmed in the mission statement of the Rome Treaty. At the same time, the new member states (NMS) needed the “Return to Europe” for their reintegration into the Western world. However, the capacity for this extension was actually missing on both sides, and it has remained so during the last 30 years of systemic change or the 15 years of EU membership. Altogether, this controversial process has produced a colorful picture of successes and failures in all NMS that will be analyzed in an ECE context.

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Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union

The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union

Exploring Differentiated Disintegration in a Post‐Brexit European Union

Rethinking the historical trajectory of ECE: From the “original sin” in democratization to redemocratization

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