Firstly, and by far most importantly, there’s Juncker’s outright rejection of the idea of a two-tire or multi-speed Europe, which has gained traction both among practitioners and in the academia. If he has his way, there will be no institutionalization of the core-periphery partition on the continent and no “second class” citizens of the EU.
Secondly, the transnationalization of the elections for the European Parliament would be unlocked via the introduction of continent-wide lists and strengthening of the Euro-parties, so that this body would truly represent the citizens’ European interests, just as their national interests are represented in their national parliaments or the Council of the European Union. [...]
The extraordinary about all of the above measures is that they do not require opening the Pandora’s box of treaty change. The EU constitutional make-up would continue to be a tertium genus, something between an intergovernmental organisation and a state. The Lisbon Treaty would continue to equally protect both those who dread more Europe and those who would relegate the nation-state to the past.
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