Which Differentiation? the EU after the Eurocrisis

The paper aims to discuss the implications of the euro crisis on the various forms of differentiation developed within the EU. To do that, it will adopt a different paradigm on the EU, based on the multiple perspectives that have accompanied the latter’s development. The paper will thus confront the main interpretations of the Union, that is the economic community’s view and the two rivalling political interpretations of the EU as an  intergovernmental and supranational organization, in order to detect the forms of differentiation induced by their coexistence. The euro crisis has highlighted  the difficulty, if not impossibility, of keeping those different visions of the EU within the same legal and institutional framework. Thus, which are the consequences for a differentiated EU?