European Variations As a Key to Cooperation.

• Superior document: Research for Policy Series
• Author: Hirsch Ballin, Ernst.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ćerimović, Emina.; Dijstelbloem, Huub.; Segers, Mathieu.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Research for Policy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- This Is What We Have Agreed In Europe -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Room for Variation in the European Union -- 1.2 Opening Positions in the Debate on the Future of European Integration -- 1.3 Democracy in Plural -- 1.4 Variation Is More Than Differentiation -- 1.5 The Netherlands in the European Union -- 1.6 Europe in the World -- 1.7 Structuring Principles of the European Union -- 1.8 Structure of the Book -- 2 The Tension Between Image and Reality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The 'Maastricht Gateway' -- 2.3 After 'Maastricht' -- 2.4 An Historical Perspective on the Present -- 2.5 The Concept of Functionalist Development -- 2.6 Conclusion: Integration Through Variation and the Politics of Circumstance -- 3 Growing Frictions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Western Context of 'Embedded Liberalism' -- 3.3 Social Protection Gives Way to Market Liberalisation -- 3.4 Globalisation and the Problem of Alienation -- 3.5 Solidarity and 'Demoicracy' -- 3.6 Conclusion: Social Embeddedness Under Pressure -- 4 Beyond the Institutional Form: Motivations for Collective Action -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Introduction to the Matrix: Two Axes -- 4.3 European Integration as a Collective Action -- 4.4 Motivations for European Collective Action -- 4.5 Institutional Order -- 4.6 Conclusion: Community Cooperation and Its Limitations -- 5 Variation and the Internal Market -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A Social Market Economy: Work in Progress -- 5.3 Variation Within the Internal Market -- 5.4 Conclusion: Principles Leave Room for Manoeuvre -- 6 Variations in the European Union -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Three Dimensions of Variation -- 6.3 A Guideline to Variation -- 6.4 Variation in Membership/Members -- 6.5 Assessing the Desirability of Variation in Membership/Members.

6.6 Conclusion: Dealing Proactively with Variation -- 7 Variation and the Euro -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Two Logics and the Current Impasse -- 7.3 Variation as a Possible Solution to Coordination Problems in the Euro Area: An Initial Exploration -- 7.4 Conclusion: Ways Forward for Variations in Policy -- 8 Variation in Asylum, Migration and Border Control -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 History of the Policy Domain -- 8.3 Tensions -- 8.4 Intractable Realities -- 8.5 Solidarity in Migration Policy? -- 8.6 Conclusion: Ways Forward for Variations in Policy -- 9 Conclusions -- 9.1 Variation as a Guiding Perspective -- 9.2 The Dimensions of Variation -- 9.3 Variation (Options) Within the Internal Market, Emu and Asylum, Migration and Border Control -- 9.4 Variation and the Internal Market -- 9.5 Variation in EMU and the Euro -- 9.6 Variation in Asylum, Migration and Border Control -- 9.7 Perspective on Change -- 9.8 The Dutch View of the European Union -- Appendix A Applying the Matrix -- Possibilities and Impossibilities of European Public Tasks -- Tensions Associated with the Influx of Refugees: Relocation of Asylum Seekers by Means of a Quota System -- The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Formerly FRONTEX): 'Flexible Solidarity'? -- Revision of the Posting of Workers Directive According to the Principle 'Equal Pay for Equal Work in the Same Place' -- Member States' Different Positions -- Appendix B List of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Legal Sources.