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From Threat to Opportunity: Making Flexible Integration Work. EPIN Working Paper, No. 15, 29 September 2006

Kurpas, Sebastian, and De Clerck-Sachsse, Julia, and Torreblanca, José I., and Ricard-Nihoul, Gaëtane. (2006) From Threat to Opportunity: Making Flexible Integration Work. EPIN Working Paper, No. 15, 29 September 2006. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    This paper argues for a thorough reappraisal of flexibility as an instrument of integration and outlines the conditions under which it would help the enlarged EU to move forward. Too often in the past, flexibility has been used as an (efficient) threat to induce reluctant or laggard member states to keep pace with the integration process. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that flexibility has such a poor image in many member states.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > institutional development/policy > multi-speed integration
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > EPIN Working Papers
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2008
    Page Range: p. 9
    Last Modified: 06 Apr 2012 13:09
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/7398

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