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Europe’s incompatible political trinities

Buti, Marco, Lacoue-Labarthe, Muriel, (2016), “Europe’s incompatible political trinities”, VoxEU, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου The Eurozone Crisis has taken a significant toll – both economic and political – on EU member states as well as the Union as a whole. This column identifies three elements that are key to a working solution for continued union: overcoming the intergovernmental method that has dominated EU decision‑making since the crisis, avoiding the seemingly easy route of …Read More

Evolution of EU public sector financial accounting standardisation: critical events that opened the window for attempted policy change

Oulasvirta, Lasse O., Bailey, Stephen J., (2016), “Evolution of EU public sector financial accounting standardisation: critical events that opened the window for attempted policy change”, Journal of European Integration, 11 Μαΐου This paper analyses agenda-setting for EU policy change in respect to public sector accounting harmonisation, adopting the garbage can model for its theoretical framework. It utilises qualitative research methods to determine what caused the window of opportunity to open, why it …Read More

Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises

Häge, Frank, (2016), “Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises”, LSE Europpblog, 29 Αυγούστου When government ministers meet in the Council of the European Union, what determines the level of attention they direct toward particular policy areas and issues? Based on recent research, Frank Häge illustrates how the Council has focused on different policy areas over time. He writes that one of …Read More

Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three’

Krotz, Ulrich, Maher, Richard, (2016), “Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three’”, West European Politics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 14 Ιουνίου This article examines the impact and significance of the Crimea–Ukraine–Russia and the eurozone crises on relations among and between the EU’s three biggest member states – Britain, France and Germany – as well as their individual influence and roles within the EU. The Ukraine and eurozone crises have revealed and intensified three …Read More

Governance of the European Monetary Union: Recasting Political, Fiscal and Financial Integration

Jones, Erik, Torres, Francisco, (2016), “Governance of the European Monetary Union: Recasting Political, Fiscal and Financial Integration”, Routledge, 7 Ιουνίου The crisis in the euro area is a defining moment in the history of European integration. It has revealed major flaws in the architecture of the European Union; it has challenged European institutions to shape an appropriate response; and it has tested the patience of a European public that is eager to …Read More

The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform

De La Porte, Caroline, Heins, Elke, (2016), “The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform”, Palgrave Macmillan UK This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis. Bringing together leading European social policy researchers, it shows that the EU’s responses to the sovereign debt crisis have changed the nature of EU …Read More

Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy

Hug, Adam, (2016), “Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy”, The Foreign Policy Centre, Ιούνιος The European Union finds itself at a critical juncture. The long-term political impacts of the 2008 economic crisis and the rising pressures of globalisation have helped to drive public distrust in traditional sources of influence and authority. As a supranational institution trying to bring together the disparate wills of 28 member state publics …Read More

EU experimentalist governance in times of crisis

Zeitlin, Jonathan, (2016), “EU experimentalist governance in times of crisis”, West European Politics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 9 Ιουνίου This paper analyses the evolution of EU governance since the financial and eurozone crisis from an experimentalist perspective. It argues that EU governance in many key policy domains continues to take the form of an experimentalist decision–making architecture, based on a recursive process of framework goal–setting and revision through comparative review of implementation experience …Read More

Europe’s union in crisis: tested and contested

Laffan, Brigid, (2016), “Europe’s union in crisis: tested and contested”, West European Politics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 20 Ιουνίου This special issue explores how Europe’s Union is tested though crises but also faces explicit contestation in troubled times. Crises are ‘open moments’ that impact on rulers and ruled, testing existing paradigms, policies, politics, institutional roles and rules. The papers in this special issue test the resilience of the Union in crisis conditions, the …Read More

Future of the EU27: What to expect from this summer’s period of reflection

Blockmans, Steven, (2016), “Future of the EU27: What to expect from this summer’s period of reflection”, Centre for European Policy Studies, 18 Ιουλίου As the UK’s brutal political fallout of Brexit continues to astound the world, leaders in the other member states are wrestling with the EU’s new reality. They deemed it too early to draw conclusions at the June European Council. Instead, the heads of state and government declared a …Read More