Enhanced Cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty

Nico Groenendijk

Enhanced Cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty

Nico Groenendijk

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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Abstract

Enhanced cooperation is often regarded as being a way out of EU decision-making deadlock and as a major possibility of proceeding with European integration in selected areas. Although the mechanism has been in place since the Treaty of Amsterdam, enhanced cooperation has only recently become a reality, in two policy fields: divorce law and the single EU patent. Using these two cases, in this paper the pros and cons of enhanced cooperation (as compared to unitary integration and alternative integration) are analyzed. The paper concludes by pointing out some possible weaknesses of the enhanced cooperation mechanism.

Original language	Undefined
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Research Meeting on European & International Affairs 2011 - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 9 Mar 2011 → 9 Mar 2011

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Conference	Research Meeting on European & International Affairs 2011
Period	9/03/11 → 9/03/11
Other	March 9, 2011

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IR-80704

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