Editing Multi-speed Europe (section)

==Post-Brexit-vote revival of "multispeed Europe" ideas==
{{Update section|date=June 2022}}
In March 2017, [[European Commission]] [[President of the European Commission|president]] [[Jean-Claude Juncker]] released a five-point view of possible courses for the EC and its to-be-27 post-[[Brexit]] members, looking forward to the year 2025. The points, among which Juncker expressed no preference, "range from standing down from policing of government financing of companies, for example, to a broader pullback that would essentially strip the EU back to being merely a single market", per one report.
The updated possibilities would entail member countries or groups of countries adopting different levels of participation with the union. The EC was approaching a March meeting of the 27 members in Rome and Juncker's paper addressed the options that "once invited scorn from convinced [[Europhile]]s" and seemed maybe even to have some backing "of lifelong [[federalists]]" like the president.<ref>Valentine Pop, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-scorned-multispeed-europe-is-back-1488388260 "Once Scorned, ‘Multispeed Europe’ Is Back" (subscription)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302040209/https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-scorned-multispeed-europe-is-back-1488388260 |date=2 March 2017 }}, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 1 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-01.</ref>