🌍 External differentiated integration (#EDI) refers to the application of #EU rules and policies in non-member states - states that are on the path of becoming members or benefit from using the same standards as their neighbours. 📃 In a new article published in Taylor & Francis Group, our Marie Curie Fellow Dr Maria Patrin takes a look at the democratic implications of such differentiation: Focusing on #freedom, security and #justice, she analyses two case studies from the field of #Schengen and police cooperation. ⁉️ How does EDI affect the decision-making and accountability in non-member states? And what legal consequences arise from overlapping internal and external differentiation? Find out in her new article on "Democratic standards in external #differentiation: the area of freedom, security and justice" 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4A4a2gH #NewPaper #ExternalDifferentiation #Enlargement