Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration.
In the past derogations from certain policies have been granted to
member states with special difficulties, but were always supposed
to be temporary. Since the Treaty of Maastricht however a principle
of permanent opt-outs from major policies has been established.
Such opt-outs can be secured through deliberate choice, rather than
incapacity. They are becoming more common. This shift towards
flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with
more complexity and probably less transparency. It also affects the
way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a
state-like outcome to the process far less likely. In this book
Alex Warleigh looks at why flexibility has become such an important
feature of the EU. He examines its history, and puts forward a
typology to explain the models by which it is understood. He goes
on to explore the hazards of flexibility and to look at what it has
to offer, arguing that it is best seen as a desirable part of the
integration process rather than as a problem. Flexibility, he
argues is an important mechanism for the realization of the EU's
slogan "unity in diversity".
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