EU INTEGRATION AND MEMBER STATE’S COMPETITIVENESS:POOLED SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF RUNNING GLOBALIZATION Cover Image

EU-INTEGRÁCIÓ ÉS TAGÁLLAMI VERSENYKÉPESSÉG Az együttesen gyakorolt szuverenitás a vágtató globalizáció korában
EU INTEGRATION AND MEMBER STATE’S COMPETITIVENESS:POOLED SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF RUNNING GLOBALIZATION

Author(s): Attila Ágh
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete
Keywords: Full sovereignty and/or shared/pooled sovereignty; systemic features in the Union; global competitiveness; differentiated integration/membership

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure in this paper is that the optimal goal system for the member states’ competitiveness is pooled sovereignty versus confrontation with the EU. Under the pressure of global crisis the EU has turned defi nitely to the systemic architecture and it expects its member states to follow this systemic accommodation as well. Therefore the theory of differentiated integration has come to the fore in the European Studies that has demonstrated the process by which some member states have turned from the mainstream in the Union to the negative and regressive way of differentiation. This paper tries to argue that the negative and regressive way of differentiation simultaneously endangers the global competitiveness of the member states.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 51-66
  • Page Count: 16