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European integration through open-ended mechanisms
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Lisbon : Universidade Católica Editora, 2025, Varia
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TORRES, Francisco S., European integration through open-ended mechanisms, Lisbon : Universidade Católica Editora, 2025, Varia - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/94137
Abstract
This book examines the building of the European Union’s governance framework from the perspective of the sustainability of the European integration process. It departs from the premise that the evolution of that framework depends on some degree of preference convergence to have occurred or to occur. The book focuses on two fundamental EU institutions that were built as open-ended mechanisms: Economic and Monetary Union and the European Green Deal. In doing so, it also discusses the importance of ‘openness’ to further political integration and the limits of differentiated integration.
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Preface
Summary and acknowledgments
--1. Introduction
--1.1 The need to address crises simultaneously in a coherent and holistic way
--2. Economic and Monetary Union: an open-ended compromise and a second building block of EU economic governance
--2.1 The first test to EMU’s sustainability: the sovereign debt crisis
--2.2 The ECB also as a guardian of the sustainability of EMU as such
--2.3 Looking beyond the immediate crisis context: the issue of sustainability (in sensu latu)
--3. The European Green Deal: another open-ended compromise and a third building block in the making of EU economic governance
--4. How have the two more recent crises played to preference convergence and to EMU’s and the EU’s sustainability?
--4.1 The need for preferences to converge on a sustainable ‘European model’ of society
--5. Conclusion
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Published : December 2025