Will More Integration Save Europe s Social Model?

The Inevitable Re Birth of European Integration

The European Union will be preoccupied with its own internal integration process.

European integration has primarily come about through the European Union and the Council of Europe.

They oppose anything that smacks of European political integration.

ATHENS European integration implies successive transfers of national sovereignty to the Union.

Deepening and widening European integration are the superficial opposites here.

Orange Ukraine writes on the prospects of Ukraine's European integration.

T he great opportunities offered by European integration have been largely squandered.

Abandoning it would be tantamount to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.

Surveys indicate that the Irish are strong supporters of EU membership and the integration process.

If Germany no longer acts as the driving force of European integration, then European integration is a thing of the past.

The situation has highlighted the ambiguity surrounding the EU budget s role in European integration.

But the claim that only deeper EU integration can save the European social model from the onslaught of emerging markets is not true.

Otherwise, European history will remain a vicious circle of fragmentation and aborted efforts at integration.

There has always been a close relationship between European monetary integration and global problems.

This step will undoubtedly bring us closer to the ultimate goal Euro Atlantic integration.

Indeed, none of the current initiatives to boost Latin American regional integration resemble at all the European integration process.

The response to these failings, however, was a demand for greater economic integration, including such intermediate steps as the creation of a European finance minister or an EU commissioner with sweeping powers to facilitate closer integration.

Simply put, the European integration project has hinged on restrictions on national sovereignty.

The foreign policy of the Netherlands is based on four basic commitments to Atlantic co operation, to European integration, to international development and to international law.

(d) Support regional and subregional integration processes and promote the negotiations on agreements with the European Union

The attitudes of the EU's big and small countries suggests that European integration's basic bargain is no longer regarded as fair.

In particular, courts have driven European integration forward as much as politicians have.

But this set up makes little sense in the face of the economic logic of European integration.

The EU integration process is also proving a powerful driver for much needed reform in Bosnia.

As long as that remains true, European integration may be doomed by the time the music stops.

But realizing the TTIP s potential requires completion of the European integration project.

The Republic of Moldova has irreversibly chosen the path of European integration as the strategic objective of its foreign policy.

Romania is committed to achieving the set of Millennium Development Goals and targets as it advances on the road of European integration.

The upper tier subdivisions of England are the nine Government office regions or European Union government office regions.

But, given the Treaty of Nice, this will lead to the EU s internal disintegration and the formation of two camps the EU of integration and the EU of the Common Market.

Two main parties began to alternate in power and European integration acted as a stabilizer for domestic politics.

Whatever the final outcome, the current crisis will fundamentally shape the future of European integration.

All of the steps taken so far have resulted in more European integration, not less.

Instead, they saw themselves as following Europe's long established pattern of step by step integration.

For half a century, Europe s integrationists have sought unquestioning acceptance of their efforts.

Regional integration is a recipe for long term stability in Asia, and a second line of engagement for the EU.

So, fundamental considerations speak for deeper European integration, extending even to the creation of a single European state.

Indeed, such a task which is closely tied to the success of European integration would be an authentic fulfillment of the European sense of global responsibility.

Giving Europeans the time and space to choose more Europe would reinforce the core values upon which integration has rested for more than six decades.

The Montevideo office gave technical backstopping to the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and was actively engaged in the provision of advisory services to government agencies.

For Merkel, Sunday s election has opened a door, especially with respect to overcoming the euro crisis and to deepening European integration.

But the answer to such doubt and dismay is more Europe, not less.

In building the means to secure Europe s energy future, we will also renew the spirit of European integration and give new strength to the EU as a global actor.