@ARTICLE{26583242_26965116_2007, author = {Marina Larionova}, keywords = {, crisis, road map, European UnionEuropean integration}, title = {Crisis? What Crisis? Reflections on the European Integration and the 50th Anniversary of the EU Treaty of Rome.}, journal = {INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS RESEARCH JOURNAL}, year = {2007}, volume = {2}, number = {2}, pages = {4-5}, url = {https://iorj.hse.ru/en/2007-2-2/26965116.html}, publisher = {}, abstract = {The paper presents reflections on the debates and contradictory assessments raging around the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome on the future of the EU.  The author looks at the recent processes and objectives of the next decade through the historical prism of the European Community developments and concludes that crises and challenges have mostly, even though eventually,  served as a platform for innovative solutions and windows to a new level of cooperation. It is not mandatory that the Treaty of the Constitution for the EU should be the best tool, though, in the author’s  view, resort to the intergovernmental model is not an option.}, annote = {The paper presents reflections on the debates and contradictory assessments raging around the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome on the future of the EU.  The author looks at the recent processes and objectives of the next decade through the historical prism of the European Community developments and concludes that crises and challenges have mostly, even though eventually,  served as a platform for innovative solutions and windows to a new level of cooperation. It is not mandatory that the Treaty of the Constitution for the EU should be the best tool, though, in the author’s  view, resort to the intergovernmental model is not an option.} }