The Political State of the Union
23rd Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe 28 September 2017
Steffen Lehndorff Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation Universität Duisburg-Essen
Multi-speed EU? Three levels of debate and action
1. Big politics - How to hold the shop together? - Focus: Institutional reforms within the treaties
2. Symbolic staging - How to make the EU more attractive? - Focus: „Social dimension“
3. „Technocratic“ continuity - How to carry on deregulation in the Single Market? - Focus: widely unnoticed directives etc.
http://www.euromemo.eu/annual_workshops/2017_athens/athens_workshops_papers/index.html
The oppositional stance: a progressive concept of „different speeds“
Create a fourth level of debate and action — Link national- and EU-level reform agendas