Flexibility and European Unification: The logic of differentiated integration

Abstract

Flexibility and European Unification identifies legal differentiation (flexibility) as the European Union's key mechanism for overcoming deadlock during the past two decades. Based on a newly developed theory of differentiated integration, it investigates the dynamics of flexible European integration across EU policies and member states. By doing so, this book provides the first theory-based, comprehensive, and empirically sound account of European integration from the perspective of legal differentiation.