Schriften des Europa-Instituts der Universität des Saarlandes Rechtswissenschaft 104 Thomas Giegerich/Desirée C. Schmitt/Sebastian Zeitzmann (eds.) Flexibility in the EU and Beyond How Much Differentiation Can European Integration Bear? Nomos
Committee of Honour Comité d honneur Hans Christian Krüger Michele de Salvia Henry G. Schermers Albert Weitzel Schriften des Europa-Instituts der Universität des Saarlandes Rechtswissenschaft Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M. Professor Dr. Thomas Giegerich, LL.M. Professor Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Georg Ress Professor Dr. Torsten Stein Band 104in Verbindumit dem Institut für Menschenrechte
Thomas Giegerich/Desirée C. Schmitt/Sebastian Zeitzmann (eds.) Flexibility in the EU and Beyond How Much Differentiation Can European Integration Bear? Nomos
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Table of Contents Preface 5 List of Abbreviations 11 Part I Introduction How to Reconcile the Forces of Enlargement and Consolidation in an Ever Closer Union 17 Thomas Giegerich The Development of Flexible Integration in EC/EU Practice 59 Robert Böttner A Rather Strange Animal, this Enhanced Cooperation May it Serve as King of the European Zoonion? or: Is Enhanced Cooperation Anywhere Near a Constitutional Principle? 87 Sebastian Zeitzmann Part II Selected Types of Differentiation in the EU: Opt-Outs, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Independence Movements, European Monetary Union, Enhanced Cooperation Comparing Opt-Outs: How Different is Differentiated Integration 109 Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu Elements of Differentiation Within the Schengen Acquis and the Prüm Convention 123 Pascale Joannin The Common Foreign and Security Policy A Pool of Flexibility Models 139 Sebastian Graf von Kielmansegg 7
Table of Contents How Independence Movements Trigger Flexibility in the EU 161 Katharina Crepaz Deepened Integration in the Eurozone? 183 Christian Deubner The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance and the ESM Treaty: Intergovernmental Arrangements Outside EU Law, but for the Benefit of the EMU? 195 Gianni Lo Schiavo How Much Flexibility Can European Integration Bear in Order to Face the Eurozone Crisis? Reflections on the EMU inter se International Agreements Between EU Member States 225 Clelia Lacchi Rome III Regulation: Getting Divorced in Europe 251 Bérénice Lemoine The End to a Never-Ending Story? The Unitary Patent Regime 269 Thomas Jaeger Part III Flexibility from Different Perspectives: Inside and Outside the EU, and in Global Systems of International Cooperation Selected Types The Trials and Tribulations of the Benelux 285 Jan Wouters / Maarten Vidal The Swiss Way: 120 Agreements but no Perspective? 297 Astrid Epiney / Sian Affolter Differentiation and EU Neighbourhood Policy: A Need for Change? 315 Christoph Schnellbach An American Perspective on EU Flexibility and Differentiation 337 William T. Daniel 8
Table of Contents The Perception of Flexible Integration in Southeast Asia 349 Clara Portela What Does the German Basic Law Say on Flexible Integration? 361 Hermann-Josef Blanke Outside, but not that far: Strasbourg s Perspective The European Union and the Council of Europe 381 Jörg Polakiewicz How Flexible Is the World Order? What We Can Learn from the United Nations 407 Manuela Scheuermann Variable Geometry in WTO Law and Policy: Lessons for the European Union 431 Thomas Cottier Part IV Flexibility Rethinking the Ever Closer Union? Within and Without Ever Closer Union 451 Pedro Cruz Villalón The Limits of Differentiated Integration in the EU and the Way Forward 461 Jo Leinen / Fabian Pescher Making a New Start on a Smaller European Basis: An Alternative to Differentiation 479 Giorgio Maganza List of Authors and Editors 493 9