The Implementation of Enhanced Cooperation in the EU
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, examines – against a historical backdrop – the legal provisions governing Enhanced Cooperation as well as the so far very limited number of implemented Enhanced Cooperation initiatives. Based on these insights, concrete ideas are formulated on how to optimise this ‘standardised and generalised framework’ of differentiated integration, touching upon questions of efficacy, efficiency and legitimacy.
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang WESSELS, Centre for Turkey and European Union Studies (CETEUS), University of Cologne; Carsten GERARDS, Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, College of Europe (Bruges)
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- civil union
- documentation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- enhanced cooperation
- EP Committee
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- European construction
- European Joint Undertaking
- European patent
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- family
- FINANCE
- financial transaction
- Framework Programme for Research and Development
- free movement of capital
- GEOGRAPHY
- intellectual property
- LAW
- matrimonial law
- organisation of the legal system
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- public prosecutor's department
- report
- research and intellectual property
- research policy
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- Treaty of Amsterdam