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DAY 2 of the #InDivEU Mid-Term Conference is about to get underway! Today we have 2 panels:

1⃣ Effects of #DifferentiatedIntegration
2⃣ External #Differentiation

As yesterday, we'll be keeping you updated by live-tweeting all our expert contributions from Team #InDivEU💪

The Chair of our first panel, Wojciech Gagatek from @UniWarszawski, has just opened up proceedings 💪

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Ioannis Vergioglou from @ETH_en is taking us through the methodology and framework of the first paper of the day: "Effects of #DifferentiatedIntegration on EU Institutional Trust"

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"Not being bound by fiscal or economic provisions has a positive effect on trust in the @Europarl_EN and @EU_Commission, and @ecb"

Ioannis Vergioglou takes us through the conclusions of his study for @ETH_en, supporting the hypothesis that #Differentiation increases trust

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"However, 🇨🇿 rescinding the opt-out request from the Charter of Human Rights and the Fiscal Compact had the opposite effect"

In other words, the level of #DifferentiatedIntegration actively affects the level of public trust

@ETH_en

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"When 🇧🇬&🇷🇴 accession to Schengen was blocked by the @EUCouncil a year after being approved by the @Europarl_EN, trust decreased, despite there being an increase when the initial approval was given"

Ioannis Vergioglou from @ETH_en explains why it's not always that simple

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Conclusions:
➡️encouraging exploratory findings
➡️some initial evidence for lasting effects

Next Steps:
➡️expand the dataset
➡️include more outcome measurements
➡️improve on the specification and case selection

A fascinating presentation from our colleague at @ETH_en

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The floor has been ceded to our second presenter of the day: @__rta from @thehertieschool, speaking on the Danish case in Justice and Home Affairs

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"National elites trying to further integration among a eurosceptic public necessarily negotiate exemptions, with the outcome of legal #differentiation. Over time, interdependence and integration increases, but the public remains eurosceptic, leading to ad hoc arrangements"

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A fascinating explanation of the context of much differentiation from @__rta over at @thehertieschool

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"After the Amsterdam Treaty, opt-outs remained, but this meant the government needed to negotiate technicalities during Schengen accession, resulting in decoupling"

@__rta from @thehertieschool takes us through Danish history in #Differentiation

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" After the Lisbon Treaty, the public rejected the removal of the 'Pillars' system, resulting in a full legal opt-out of JHA. At the policy level, they negotiated parallel agreements to circumvent the opt-out, resulting again in decoupling"

- @__rta from @thehertieschool

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"Accommodating #Differentiation risks ending up with accommodating euroscepticism, may de-legitimise the EU as a political entity, and raises questions of democratic legitimacy"

@__rta from @thehertieschool explains potential risks of #DifferentiatedIntegration

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Our Chair, Wojciech Gagatek from @UniWarszawski, gives his comments on our two fascinating presentations before moving on to open the floor to questions

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And now questions are open to the floor!

This is why the #InDivEU Mid-Term conference is so valuable: experts, academics, and policy-people engaging peer-review IN REAL TIME!

@EGPProg @RobSchuCentre @EuropeanUni @EU_H2020 @dice_h2020 @BrigidLaffan

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Thanks to the expert moderation of our Chair Wojciech Gagatek from @UniWarszawski, we've had the chance already to hear a number of questions, discussions, and suggestions to our presenting researchers @__rta from @thehertieschool and Ioannis Vergioglou from @ETH_en

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After an "interesting and intense debate", our Chair Wojciech Gagatek invites our #Zoom attendees to applaud the morning session of the #InDivEU Mid-Term Conference - Day 2!

The panel is closing now, and will resume after a virtual lunch break 🥪

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The second session of DAY 2 at the #InDivEU conference is about to begin!

Be sure to follow here for some choice quotes from our panel of experts

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This panel constitutes two panels:

1⃣ "Mapping External Differentiated Integration and its Legal Limits"
2⃣ "#Brexit and Borders"

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Luigi Pedreschi from @EuropeanUni begins his presentation on "Mapping External Differentiated Integration and its Legal Limits" by defining External #Differentiation: "the obligation to adopt or align with EU law by a third country"

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"The #WithdrawalAgreement, surprisingly given it is part of the #brexit process, is actually a really interesting case of external #DifferentiatedIntegration

- Luigi Pedreschi from @EuropeanUni on how #Brexit conforms to the theory of External Differentiation

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Our Chair Bruno de Witte from @EuropeanUni now welcomes Michael Keating from @aberdeenuni to give his presentation on "#Brexit and Borders"

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"In the last months, the UK has completely abandoned the #WithdrawalAgreement in favour of a cherry-picking approach to #Brexit"

Michael Keating with a critique of the whole concept of #Brexit
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"The UK as a differentiated, multi-national union, where its ethos and values are contested among a number of 'member states'; the UK actually looks a lot like the EU"

Michael Keating examines the curiosity of #Brexiteers attitude towards the European Union

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"The devolution settlements, due to the UK's propensity not to write its constitution down, represents a consistently contested deal; it is a great example of #DifferentiatedIntegration"

- more detail on how Michael Keating analyses the UK through the #InDivEU lens

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"#England and #Wales voted #Leave by 52%, #Scotland and #NorthernIreland went for #Remain by 60% and 55% respectively"

Michael Keating explains the #Brexit divisions in the UK, discussing the increasing support for #ScottishIndependence and #IrishReunification

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Michael Keating has just raised a fascinating thought experiment: if #Brexit is so divisive in the UK and the UK is to a certain degree internally differentiated, in what areas might this be possible?

"It's not going to happen, but it wouldn't be unconstitutional"

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"#Brexit was about taking back control of borders, but the British government insisted, until reality caught up with @BorisJohnson, that there wouldn't be a border in the Irish Sea"

- Michael Keating from @aberdeenuni analyses Brexit for the #InDivEU Conference

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Michael Keating has just completed his presentation on "#Brexit and Borders" for the fourth session of the #InDivEU Mid-Term Conference, so our Chair (Bruno de Wittered from @EuropeanUni)is now giving his comments on both papers presented in this panel

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Before giving the floor back to the speakers, our Chair invites participants to contribute to the debate on External Differentiation

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We now move on to a second round of questions for our two speakers from the "External Differentiation" Panel: Luigi Pedreschi from @EuropeanUni and Michael Keating from @aberdeenuni

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.@BrigidLaffan and Frank Schimmelfennig are now bookending the #InDivEU Mid-Term Conference by wrapping things up after our fourth panel of the event, and second panel of the day.

We're discussing next steps, the virtual nature of the event, and a number of other topics

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"I am so pleased to see the progress of our ambitious project: we're filling in a lot of gaps and blank spots in the study of #DifferentiatedIntegration, and we're already pushing the field further"- Frank Schimmelfennig from @ETH_en gives his praise for the #InDivEU project

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The #InDivEU Mid-Term Conference is over, we discussed a dozen papers on the subject of #DifferentiatedIntegration that move the conversation on the #FutureofEurope forward

To our hosts, panel chairs, presenting experts, and other participants, thank you!

#InDivEU

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