Differentiated integration
The concept of differentiated integration provides for the establishment of sectoral (functional) regimes outside of the existing treaties while maintaining the previous acquis communautaire for all EU member states. Both EU member states and non-EU member states can participate. Within the respective regime, the decisions are only made by the respective participants in this so-called differentiated meeting.
A possible political union is formed "in the sense of an intersection of the participants of all regimes" . The idea of political concepts of gradual integration is said to have been no stranger to Jean Monnet .
literature
- Giering, Claus: Deepening through Differentiation - Flexibility Concepts in the Current Reform Debate. Integration 20: 72-83.
- Holzinger / Knill / Peters / Rittberger / Schimmelfennig / Wagner: The European Union. Theories and concepts of analysis. Paderborn 2005.
- Stubb, Alexander C .: A Categorization of Differentiated Integration. Journal of Common Market Studies. 34: 283-295.