FROM THE TREATY OF ROME (1957) TO FORGING A NEW WAY AHEAD FOR THE EU. POST-BREXIT SECURITY AND DEFENCE
FROM THE TREATY OF ROME (1957) TO FORGING A NEW WAY AHEAD FOR THE EU. POST-BREXIT SECURITY AND DEFENCE

Summary/Abstract: The celebration of 60 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome (1957) establishing the European Economic Community and the European Community of Atomic Energy happened in a period of heated debates on European Union’s future, marked by strong Eurosceptic attitudes, but also by efforts of finding a sufficiently strong bond in order to continue the European project in a viable form, capable of coping with the current challenges. Departing from the regional and international context, the present paper analyses a range of matters which have been the hotspots of the assessments of EU’s evolution trends. In this line of thought, a first subject approached in this paper refers to the implications of “multispeed Europe”, trying to discern not only its real significance based on EU legislation, but also the reasons for which its re-emergence in the public discourse gave birth to some member states’ virulent reactions of discontent. A second subject addressed in the following pages is related to the evolutions of the European security and defence domain, laying an emphasis on the particularities of differentiated integration in this area. The two main subjects are meant to support the conclusion that EU’s institutional flexibility is one of the few ways of ensuring the continuity of the European project despite all the challenges the organization is facing nowadays.

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