Crises and Different Possible EU Trajectories

Abstract

This panel takes as its point of departure the widely recognized notion that the crises have increased EU differentiation and segmentation. Prior to the crises the EU had instituted measures for enhanced integration of groups of states; with Brexit we now see movements towards differentiated disintegration (acknowledging that a Brexited UK will not entirely escape EU rules). We invite papers that discuss the prospects for a group of states coming together and forming binding forms of cooperation and retailoring the EU institutions along those lines, as well as papers that discuss disintegration or possibly even fragmentation. We invite papers that conceptualize what distintegration/fragmentation is; and papers that look at concrete developments in order to establish the prospects for disintegration.