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