Open AccessTHE PROSPECTS FOR INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: A LIBERAL INTERGOVERNMENTALIST PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Piotr Tosiek
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
srpska politička misao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1452-3108
pISSN - 0354-5989
DOI - 10.22182/spm.6822020.6
Subject(s) - intergovernmentalism , negotiation , political science , european union , dimension (graph theory) , statement (logic) , perspective (graphical) , public administration , triad (sociology) , categorization , law and economics , positive economics , european integration , political economy , sociology , law , economics , epistemology , social science , international trade , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , computer science
The purpose of the article is to determine the probability of institutional reforms resulting from the debate on EU future held as a part of the “Conference on the Future of Europe” initiated in 2020. In the theoretical dimension, the analysis is based on the application of the liberal intergovernmentalist approach with its three assumptions: the strict categorization of intergovernmental decision-making built on the triad ‘preferences-negotiations-institutions’, the concept of demoicracy, and the need for differentiated integration. On this basis, three hypotheses for each reform are presented and verified, which leads to determination of their possible implementation. The main thought is the statement that, when adopting the liberal intergovernmentalism, the EU will remain an intergovernmental organization, founded on societies organized in nation states, but at the same time internally differentiated in terms of the quality of membership.