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The enlargement crisis of the European Union: from political integration to social disintegration
In: Europe in motion: social dynamics and political institutions in an enlarging Europe, S. 11-28
The Europeanization of Cleavages and the Emergence of a European Social Space
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 50-54
ISSN: 0958-9287
Debate on the enlargement of the European Union: The enlargement crisis of the European Union: limits of the dialectics of integration and expansion
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 35-62
ISSN: 1461-7269
The enlargement crisis of the EU has been triggered by problems related to enlargement towards the east but its roots extend far beyond that issue. To date, European integration has developed within a structure of a wealthy core territory and concentric circles around this centre. The emergence of this pattern has been driven by the dialectics of integration and expansion. But the institutional obstacles and legitimation problems linked to EU eastward enlargement indicate that very little room for manoeuvre remains for future expansion of the EU. As the expansion process reaches its limits, differentiated forms of EU integration, creating different classes of EU members, are likely to appear.