class 22

Question 1

COPY TABLE NOT YET ON PP

Question 2

explain the 4 scenarios

Answer 2

Scenario 1: Disintegration
Scenario 2: Piecemeal Adjustement (adaptations, do less, more critical on EU integration)
Scenario 3: Functional Federalism (much more Europe in defense)
Scenario 4: Federation of Nation States (EU turns into a federal state like Canada)

Question 3

what scenarios are we in right now

Answer 3

2-3

Question 4

The EU has also dealt with this and Brexit 2017, EU member states came together and drafted a white paper and created five scenarios reflections and scenarios for the EU27 by 2025. What are the 5 scenarios?

Answer 4

1) carry on (EU will continue to do as before) What they did.
2) Nothing but the single market (EU should just be about that) (UK would come back)
3) those who want more do more
4) doing less more efficiently (complete rethink on identifying where EU could ask most value, and should focus where they could add value)
5)doing much more together (sounds more like United States of Europe)

Question 5

what is the problem with the FIVE scenarios?

Answer 5

only top-down, but europeans need to give their opinions so they supoorted the initated n the confernce of the future of europe which was more bottom up. Sponsored by EU but “future is in your hands”

Question 6

explain the conference of the future of europe

Answer 6

citizen-led series of debates and discussions that ran from April 2021 to May 2022 and enabled people from across Europe to share their ideas

Question 7

explain differentiated integration

Answer 7

a process that allows member states of the European Union (EU) to have different rights and obligations when it comes to specific EU policies

long history (needs to be more flexible because the countries are so different) eg. the currency of Denmark, the Schengen agreement

Question 8

what are the methods of differentiated

Answer 8

• multi-speed (least radical way) adopt when ready, as long as they end up in the same place
• a la carte (pick what you want, with a menu) pick and choose
• concentric circles (related to differentiation not a part of it)

Question 9

what are the benefits of differentiated integration?

Answer 9

prevent stagnation

Question 10

what are the problems of differentiated intergration?

Answer 10

• Monnet’s dream of an “ever closer union” will never be reached
• will weaken EU solidarity
• lead to the dominance of some member states (multiple teams)
• will create problems of transparency