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This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a
lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to
bring together thirty very different European states and their
citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation.
Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and
deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve
impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring
principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically
supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary,
specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of
law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By
taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace
uniformity from the debate about the EU's future. The book
discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the
current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these
variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the
euro; and asylum, migration and border control.
What is Europe? This question is ever more pressing, as present day
Europe wallows in crisis - its deepest since the process of
European integration took off in the 1950s. The current state of
affairs sets the stage for this book. It brings together leading
international thinkers and scholars of different generations in a
feverish quest to better understand Europe's present state. In
their essays these authors engage in the paradoxes and puzzles of
European identity and culture. They present new answers to the
eternal question regarding 'the essence of Europe'. An anthology of
influential texts from the making of present-day Europe completes
the book as a very European exercise in thinking and re-thinking
Europa, its culture, history and present.
This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a
lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to
bring together thirty very different European states and their
citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation.
Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and
deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve
impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring
principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically
supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary,
specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of
law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By
taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace
uniformity from the debate about the EU's future. The book
discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the
current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these
variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the
euro; and asylum, migration and border control.
On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for
supranational cooperation in Western Europe. The Netherlands was
taken completely by surprise. In the decades that followed,
European integration moved forward at an unprecedented pace, taking
the Netherlands with it. Geography and the post-war world seemed to
leave the country no other choice. European integration forced -
and is still forcing - the Netherlands on a far-reaching 'journey
to the continent'. For the Netherlands, European integration
represents a difficult journey to a new old world that often seems
far off. How has that journey progressed so far? Why did the
Netherlands join the common European market and currency from the
very beginning? Was this course inevitable? And where has it
brought the country? Using new, international source material, The
Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present digs deeply
into the history of the Netherlands in Europe - a subject that is
today more topical than ever.
Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and
contemporary history, this book explores why and how European
integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals
and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and
planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots of
today's European Union lie deep in Europe's past and encompass more
than war and peace, or diplomacy and economics. Based on original
archival and primary source research, Segers provides an integrated
history of the beginnings of European integration and the emergence
of post-war Western Europe and today's European Union. The Origins
of European Integration offers a broad perspective on the genealogy
of post-war Western Europe, providing readers with a deeper
understanding of contemporary European history and the history of
transatlantic relations.
Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and
contemporary history, this book explores why and how European
integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals
and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and
planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots of
today's European Union lie deep in Europe's past and encompass more
than war and peace, or diplomacy and economics. Based on original
archival and primary source research, Segers provides an integrated
history of the beginnings of European integration and the emergence
of post-war Western Europe and today's European Union. The Origins
of European Integration offers a broad perspective on the genealogy
of post-war Western Europe, providing readers with a deeper
understanding of contemporary European history and the history of
transatlantic relations.
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