Is Brexit #Differentiated Integration a Game Changer #Brexit for Eu External Differentiated Integration?
POWERFUL EUROPE POLICY BRIEF JUNE 2020 IS BREXIT #DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION A GAME CHANGER #BREXIT FOR EU EXTERNAL DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION? ▪ ANDREAS EISL The future EU-UK relationship cannot be lormade post-Brexit agreement, a rather Research fellow, Jacques negotiated in abstracto as a purist form of systemic approach is prevailing with EU Delors Institute, Paris. ‘taking back control’, as imagined by Prime negotiators. The latter must carefully anti- ▪ ELVIRE FABRY Minister Boris Johnson. The UK is the first cipate any spillover effects of a final deal Senior Research fellow, country to leave the EU, but the last of a on the Single Market; on member states Jacques Delors Institute, long list of close neighbours and remote as much as on countries benefiting from Paris. countries which have asked for preferential specific forms of external differentiated inte- 1 Published in Towards an ambitious, access to the Union’s Single Market. Any gration. broad, deep and flexible EU-UK post-Brexit agreement will have to fit into partnership? from the Brexit Think an already complex framework of external The global economic crisis provoked by Tank Group, dir. European Policy differentiated integration. Over the years, the the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply trans- Centre (EPC). EU has accepted very diverse modes of such formed the post-Brexit political economy. integration. Every agreement corresponds to Avoiding the additional economic costs a specific moment of the EU project, a spe- of a hard Brexit could be an incentive for cific partner and specific objectives, and is concession. However, now more than ever, implemented through a specific institutional the EU27’s priority, reflected in its negotia- set-up.2 ting mandate for post-Brexit relations, is to safeguard its economic competitiveness by However, while the UK expects to benefit preserving the integrity of the Single Market from this ad hoc approach to obtain a tai- 1.
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