Flexible multi-speed Europe à la carte (Conference on the Future of Europe)

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Speaker: Tomas Brichacek, Czech lawyer and political commentator
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The European Union can only become more democratic if the current centralist, uniformist model of integration is abandoned. Instead of an 'ever closer union', we need a flexible platform for the voluntary cooperation of sovereign states. Each state should be able to participate according to its current needs and preferences.
Therefore, the activities of the Union should be divided into a mandatory common basis (common core) and an optional superstructure (optional extension).
The common core would be mandatory for all Member States and the decisions taken would bind all of them. It would be based on the current model (including the widespread use of the Community method). However, unlike today it would be limited to a narrow range of areas: primarily the internal market and closely related issues (issues like competition, common commercial policy, consumer protection), the movement and residence of citizens within the Union and - under unanimity rule - basic institutional matters and common foreign and security policy.
All other activities of the Union (thus the vast majority of its current efforts) should be part of the optional superstructure. Individual States would get involved on a voluntary basis. They would always be able to reconsider their participation.