Decisions Concerning the ‘Opt-Out’ as an Instrument for Protecting National Interests
Decisions Concerning the ‘Opt-Out’ as an Instrument for Protecting National Interests

Summary/Abstract: Various aspects of European integration are a long-term dominant theme in European political science. One of the relatively new areas of problems, which gradually gets to the forefront of interest of academic scholars, is the flexible or differentiated integration as one of the optional models for further intensification of the European integration process. Contemporary literature shows that the problem can be studied from three theoretical approaches, legal, politological and economic. The main objective of this study is an explanation of the main theoretical principles and models of flexible/differentiated integration and their place in the historical development of the EU on the basis of political science. The study is mainly a historical and politological analysis and synthesis of the development of Europe’s integration viewed from the aspect of differentiated and flexible integration. On this basis we want to define the so-called wide and narrow conceptions of differentiated and flexible integration, including its partial models, while paying special attention to the theoretical model of the ‘opt-out’ decision.

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