The European Union between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The European Union between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
ФАДЕЕВА Т.М.
Abstract
The article focuses on the discussion of the process of European integration in the modern context of challenges and threats to which the authors, along with green conversion, inflation, high energy prices, add the war around Ukraine. Hence attempts to rethink the EU's role in defending Europe; debate around the dialectic of «deepening and expanding» the EU, the search for a viable form of political integration between so-called «flexible integration» and federalism.
Keywords
European Union; federalism; intergovernmentalism; supranationalism; «flexible integration».