Abstract

Abstract The paper offers insight into the current practice of the passerelle(s), the enhanced cooperation and the flexibility clause, which may serve in the future the implementation of the Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe (2017) without Treaty revision, in light of recent developments in the policy of the new Commission, Council and European Parliament on the future of EU integration. The ex-ante and ex-post control mechanisms available at Member State level concerning the freedom of their governments to support such European initiatives, are also discussed from a comparative perspective. The paper concludes by presenting the risks associated with the activation of these mechanism of integration.

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