Differentiated integration. Perspectives from smaller member states.

Abstract

The panel disseminates results from the InDivEU project on Integrating Diversity in the European Union. The individual papers offer country case studies which explore to what extent differentiated integration is a salient issue in member state politics; and what positions decision-makers take on it. The focus in on smaller member states (Austria, Ireland, Romania, Slovenia), which are not only less studied than larger member states but are also likely to be sceptical about differentiated integration. On the one hand, small states are thought to be more dependent on international cooperation than larger states. On the other hand, differentiated integration threatens the leverage (veto power) of small member states in the EU. The papers have also appeared in a Special Issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies (2021, 13/3).

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Differentiated Integration - Views from Austria	View Paper Details
The Politics of Differentiated Integration: Ireland	View Paper Details
Differentiated Integration or Discriminatory Integration? Romania’s view on DI in the EU	View Paper Details
Slovenia: a case of a small, relatively new member country	View Paper Details