Differentiated Integration in a Nordic Perspective [Hardcover]

Foreword: The case for a confederal Europe??1. Laboratories of differentiation and the Nordic region??Part 1: Economic and social issues??2. The economics behind the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU: Why differentiated integration is a better option??3. Nordic pension systems in a European differentiated integration perspective??4. The euro areas favourite outsiders: Denmark and Sweden as laboratories for cooperative euro outsiderness in the EU??PART 2: Politics and administration??5. Differentiated representation of Nordic staff in the EU institutions??6. Differentiated alignment and Nordic cooperation in security and defence: The case of Swedish and Norwegian air forces??7. The issue of migration in the Danish referendum on the Justice and Home Affairs opt-out: Opting out from what???8. Differentiated (dis)integration of preferences: Norm selectivity of stakeholders with respect to the EUs Arctic Strategy??PART 3: International conventions and law??9. Alternative integration as a stumbling block for the governance of patents in the EU??10. The European Court of Human Rights: How Nordic legal pragmatism can promote European integration by allowing for more differentiation??11. The EEA-agreement: A vehicle for differentiated integration??12. Conclusions: Experimentation and differentiation in the Nordic region

This book analyses differentiation in European integration from a Nordic perspective.

Anne Pintsch is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Management at the University of Agder, Norway.

Tor-Inge Harbo is Professor of Law at the University of Agder, Norway.

Lars Oxelheim is Professor of International Business and Finance at University of Agder, Norway, affiliated researcher at the Research Institute lÃ;