Differentiated Integration in a Nordic Perspective (1版)

This book analyses differentiation in European integration from a Nordic perspective. Following an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the idea of the Nordics as a laboratory of differentiation, the book explores specific Nordic concerns in policy fields such as the labour market, security and Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), EU institutions such as the European Commission and the Eurogroup, and legal issues such as the European Economic Area (EEA) law and European patent law. It discusses differentiation, particularly from the Nordic experiences, examines the lessons that can be learnt from them, and suggests more 'hidden' and less researched cases. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European studies, European integration, Nordic studies, differentiated integration and more broadly to comparative politics. Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Foreword: The case for a confederal Europe Alexander Stubb 1. Laboratories of differentiation and the Nordic region Anne Pintsch Part I Economic and social issues 2. The economics behind the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU: Why differentiated integration is a better option Per Skedinger 3. Nordic pension systems in a European differentiated integration perspective Eskil Wadensjö and Anne Pintsch 4. The euro area’s favourite outsiders: Denmark and Sweden as laboratories for cooperative euro outsiderness in the EU Alexander Schilin PART II Politics and administration 5. Differentiated representation of Nordic staff in the EU institutions Christoph Demmke 6. Differentiated alignment and Nordic cooperation in security and defence: The case of Swedish and Norwegian air forces Viktoriya Fedorchak 7. The issue of migration in the Danish referendum on the Justice and Home Affairs opt-out: Opting out from what? Kristine Graneng 8. Differentiated (dis)integration of preferences: Norm selectivity of stakeholders with respect to the EU’s Arctic Strategy Özlem Terzi PART III International conventions and law 9. Alternative integration as a stumbling block for the governance of patents in the EU Nico Groenendijk 10. The European court of human rights: How Nordic legal pragmatism can promote European integration by allowing for more differentiation Ole Gjems-Onstad 11. The EEA-agreement: A vehicle for differentiated integration Tor-Inge Harbo 12. Conclusions: Experimentation and differentiation in the Nordic region Anne Pintsch