Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the consistency between asymmetry and integration in light of the specific features of EU law, described in this paper as a complex legal order. In order to do that I shall structure this work as follows: firstly, I shall briefly recall the relevant literature on asymmetry in EU law and the debate triggered by the measures adopted in the frame of the European economic governance, paying particular attention to the provisions included in the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG). The TSCG has been seen as a kind of return of international law dynamics with an evident loss in terms of supranationalism. This is only partly true and as I shall try to show in the second part of the article, the flexibility and the asymmetry offered by this instrument of international law responds – to a certain extent – to the ‘elasticity’ necessary in every complex adaptive system.
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