“Opt-in”/“Opt-out” Strategies and Their Implications on JHA Communitarisation Cover Image

Politica „opt-in”/„opt-out”-urilor şi implicaţiile asupra comunitarizării JAI
“Opt-in”/“Opt-out” Strategies and Their Implications on JHA Communitarisation

Author(s): Adina Mihaela Mihai
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA)
Keywords: Justice and Home Affairs; Lisbon Treaty; communitarization; „opt-in”/„opt-out”; decisional process;

Summary/Abstract: The project elaborated is designed to analyse if the elements that were, at first, part of the third pillar, Justice and Home Affairs, contributed to the communitarization of the EU’s decisional process considering the evolutions stipulated in the treaties, including Lisbon Treaty, about keeping and extending the „opt-in”/„opt-out” principle. In order to achieve this goal, I framed the evolution of JHA in an integration theory – neofunctionalism. Then I have analyzed three sets of arguments, each one having a corresponding counterargument, of the way how the „opt-in”/„opt-out” principle influences the communitarization of the policy, JHA. The conclusion is that this principle affects the communitarization process but, also, it is a middle way for keeping the EU united.

  • Issue Year: 3/2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 35-40
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian