Ever-Closer or Multi-Speed Union

The current stagnation or crisis of the European integration process is a threat to Europe's future, since so far achieved acquis can be gradually dismantled. This period should be overcome by a joint effort of EU member states, since no country in the continent should be deprived of the possibility of equal participation on the degree of progress and peaceful coexistence. Just as with previous enlargements also the future ones will be mainly determined by political decisions of EU member states. Economic decisions will play a secondary role, even though the entire European integration process will slow down its pace in terms of the full economic union. Europe's future must lie in a pluralistic institutional arrangement, in which the different ideas about the future of European integration found its specific form.