10.15166/2499-8249/408
https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/e-journal/overcoming-single-country-veto-eu-reform
2499-8249
De Witte, Bruno
Bruno
De Witte
Maastricht University
European University Institute Florence
Overcoming the Single Country Veto in EU Reform?
European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
2020
revision of the European treaties
inter se agreements between EU States
differentiated integration
enhanced cooperation
unanimity rule
primacy of EU law
2020-12-15
Research Centre for European Law, Unitelma Sapienza - University of Rome
eng
Dialogue
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European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(2), 983-988
This contribution to the Dialogue discusses the contribution by Federico Fabbrini, in which he proposes an innovative way forward for the reform of the European Union (F. Fabbrini, Reforming the EU Outside the EU? The Conference on the Future of Europe and Its Options, in European Papers, Vol. 5, 2020, No 2, www.europeanpapers.eu, forthcoming). Given the extreme difficulty of reaching a unanimous agreement among all the Member States on a formal revision of the European Treaties, he proposes the use of international agreements among "willing" States to take forward an ambitious reform. This would take the form of a "Political Compact" among those States, whereas the other States would not participate in it and would not be bound by its content. This contribution discusses the legal feasibility of this "Political Compact" option.