A Separate Eurozone Parliament - New Names for Old Dilemmas?
A Separate Eurozone Parliament - New Names for Old Dilemmas?

Author(s): Lavinia-Ioana Opriș
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: European Integration; Eurozone; Euro Area; European Parliament
Summary/Abstract: In recent years, heavily loaded, yet still rather vague questions considering the future of the European project have been asked with a staggering frequency that has the more salient issues of European integration bordering the realm of clichés. Against this background, suppositions, comments and analyses regarding a Europe with differentiated integration have covered their own terrain on the complex map of the European Union. The aim of this particular paper is to discuss a very recent illustration of this last point, namely the superbly timed declaration by Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble concerning possible support for a separate Eurozone Parliament. Would the functional, legal and symbolic implications of such a move be construed as another example of the versatility and adaptability the EU is famous for - or, in more sceptical views, notorious for - or would it represent a decisive step towards that proverbial final straw that breaks the camel’s back?

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