Autonomy, domination and the legitimacy of differentiated integration

Abstract

This panel explores the different facets, understandings and perceptions of differentiated integration (DI) and how they relate to the issue of domination or, alternatively, of autonomy. For that purpose, researchers examine under which conditions and in which forms differentiated integration projects can protect or jeopardise MS democracies’ ability to govern, secure legitimacy or provoke discord between EU citizens and national as well as European public authorities and defend or undermine collective interests at both levels. The panel also provides interesting insides on the polarisation of political opinions about the pros and cons of DI schemes reflecting the fundamental EU dilemma of balancing between sovereignism and Europeanism. Panel papers bring diverse theoretical, policy and discursive perspectives on the topic thus shedding light on policy, polity and politics dimensions of DI. On this basis, the panel explores a new path for DI as an intermediate non-regressive solution on how to accommodate equal membership and self-governing within the EU.

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Autonomy or Domination? Two Faces of Differentiated Integration.	View Paper Details
Differentiated integration as discursive phenomenon	View Paper Details
Differentiated integration and the problem of the second best	View Paper Details
The status of dominance in the EU system of economic governance: drawing upon the Greek case	View Paper Details