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Fostering the Political Participation of EU Non-national Citizens: The Case of Brussels Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Luana Russo,Thomas Huddleston
Political participation is considered an essential feature of democracy. The European Union (EU) aimed to foster political participation with the introduction of European citizenship, which gives the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal and European Parliament elections in whichever EU country the citizen resides. However, from the few figures available, registration and turnout rates
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Crafting Emotions: The valence of time in narratives about the future of Europe in the Council of Europe (1949) Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Martijn Kool,Trineke Palm
How are emotional narratives used to mobilise support for or opposition against policy ideas about the institutional set-up of European integration? This article systematically examines the first General Debate of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1949, which featured as a laboratory for the rise and demise of various blueprints for European integration. This article makes a threefold
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Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Niels Gheyle
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‘We thought we were friends!’: Franco-British bilateral diplomacy and the shock of Brexit Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Helen Drake,Pauline Schnapper
The British vote to leave the European Union in 2016 shook the Franco-British bilateral relationship (FBBR) to its core and led to unexpected tensions, considering the depth of cooperation between the two countries in many fields, and their geography. In this article we analyse the impact of Brexit on the FBBR to date, including the likely aftershocks. We focus on the 2017-2020 Brexit negotiations
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Steps towards a European Fiscal Union: Has the revised Stability and Growth Pact delivered so far? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Marin Mileusnic
Since 2008-09, the European Union (EU) experienced two major economic crises revealing all the flaws of the existing model of economic governance. By leaving the majority of the countries with high levels of deficit and public debt, the two crises have shown that the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is indeed an unfinished project where the monetary union alone is not sufficient to safeguard the entire
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The progressive gendering of the European Union’s economic governance architecture Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Laura Gomez Urquijo
This study shows the correlation between the European integration process and the progress of gender equality objectives. In particular, it focuses on the effectiveness of economic governance tools to enhance coordination between national policies towards gender equality. The research question pertains to whether the new architecture of economic governance aims to consolidate the market model or correct
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The Difficulty in Engaging the Engaged: Administrative Adaptation to the Early Warning System within the UK Houses of Parliament Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Nandor Revesz
This article applies a mixed-methods approach through semi-structured interviews and document analysis to provide a comprehensive account of administrative and behavioural adaptation within the UK Houses of Parliament (HoP) to the EU’s subsidiarity monitoring mechanism, the Early Warning System (EWS). The article also tests theoretical assumptions regarding the adaptation and use of the EWS on this
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Security Communities in Crisis: Crisis Constitution, Struggles and Temporality Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Øyvind Svendsen
How do we approach a security community in crisis? This article theorises crisis dynamics in and on security communities. How do security communities evolve during crises, and how can we best approach such crises analytically? Responding to a lack of focus and knowledge of crisis dynamics in the literature on security communities, this article develops a methodological model to study security communities
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Assessing the impact of party identification in transnational election campaigns: Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament election Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Thomas Waldvogel,Uwe Wagschal,Thomas Metz,Bernd Becker,Linus Feiten,Samuel Weishaupt
Since the introduction of “Spitzenkandidaten” for the presidency of the European Commission, elections to the European Parliament have been characterised by the dynamic between an increasingly transnational election campaign and a national electoral process. However, the implementation of a European election campaign focusing on transnational top candidates remains controversial because it is still
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African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Sarah Adeyinka
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Ahead of the 55th anniversary of UACES: Where is the academic interest in the association? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Zane Šime
UACES is an influential association of European Studies. It is an intellectual platform that allows the co-creating of Europe and defining of the future of European Studies. Nevertheless, it has received surprisingly little scholarly attention as an object of study. Developments in 2020 have proven the dynamism and inclusiveness of UACES and therefore that the association deserves more in-depth attention
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‘People like that cannot be trusted’: populist and technocratic political styles, legitimacy, and distrust in the context of Brexit negotiations Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Benjamin Farrand,Helena Carrapico
Debates in and over the European Union (EU) are increasingly characterised as being based in arguments that are either ‘populist’ or ‘technocratic’. As systems of communication, this article argues, populism and technocracy possess dramatically different logics of argumentation, modes of communication and meaning-making, distinct narratives, with appeals to distinct sources of legitimacy. As such,
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Technocracy and the Tragedy of EU Governance Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Hartmut Behr
In a historical perspective, technocracy, emphasising bureaucratic and technical expertise in political, social and economic areas, is a double edge sword: on the one side, it guaranteed the condition for international cooperation post-WW II, providing as an ideologically neutral basis the condition for governance in a politically bitter international climate. On the other hand, it indicates the tragedy
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The Limits of EUropean Legitimacy: On Populism and Technocracy. Introduction to the Special Issue Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Russell Foster,Jan Grzymski,Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
This article introduces the special issue on populism and technocracy in the integration and governance of the European Union (EU), framing these opposing approaches in the context of polarised debate on the (il)legitimacy of the EU. The special issue was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions of the EU’s legitimacy in the aftermath of structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt
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Between Populism and Technocracy: How National Executives in Bulgaria and Serbia Manipulate EU Rule of Law Conditionality Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Spasimir Domaradzki,Ivana Radić Milosavljević
This article explores how national executives in Serbia and Bulgaria address European Union (EU) rule of law conditionality by framing it within the populism/technocracy dichotomy. The rule of law remains one of the main problems of EU relations with the two countries. While acknowledging the nuances of pre- and post-enlargement Europeanisation, this article explores the technocratic and populist narratives
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Return of the Nation-State? De-Europeanisation and the Limits of Neo-Nationalism Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Gerard Delanty
This commentary analyses the view that the resurgence of nationalism will lead to the return of the nation-state and an accentuated de-Europeanisation. I argue against this position. While neo-nationalism has become a major force in Europe and elsewhere, I claim it does not have a capacity to restore the nation-state. I discuss what I take to be the key features of neo-nationalism, central to which
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From ‘Brexhaustion’ to ‘Covidiots’: the UK United Kingdom and the Populist Future Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Russell Foster,Matthew Feldman
Boris Johnson’s electoral victory and the 2020 culmination of Brexit are accelerating Britain’s shift towards the right and towards open criticism of technocracy in the UK and EU. Since 2016 the UK’s political atmosphere has polarised into hostile extremes. The continuation of this toxicity beyond Brexit, the dominance of nationalist narratives as Britain’s new ‘politics of everything’ (Valluvan 2019)
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Technocracy Revisited: the Polish Security Dispositif and Ukrainian Migration to Poland Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Marta Jaroszewicz,Jan Grzymski
The article investigates the reaction of the Polish technocratic security dispositif to the arrival of Ukrainian migrants in Poland between 2014-2020. It contributes to the studies on securitisation and on technocracy by proposing to re-conceptualise research on the security practices towards migration, drawing upon the notions of a security dispositif and regime of practices. It is exemplified by
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Can citizen science increase trust in research? A case study of delineating Polish metropolitan areas Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Baptiste Bedessem,Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak,Piotr Lis
We assess the relationship between citizens’ participation in scientific research and public trust in research results within social sciences. We conduct an online citizen science quasi-experiment concerning the delineation of metropolitan areas of Poland’s two major cities. It consists of two stages. In stage one, participants in one region are exposed to citizen science and directly involved in delineating
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Technocratic Planning and Political Strategies: Territorial Policy in the EU Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-13 William Outhwaite
This commentary examines the EU’s halting development of territorial policy, most recently in macro-regional planning, and the responses of member states’ local and national governmental elites. Whether populist or not in their overall programmes, these elites have tended to resist EU initiatives in the name of a perceived national interest or to instrumentalise them in order to maximise their domestic
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Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Franco Zappettini,Marzia Maccaferri
This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019). We focus on the Italian case as it is representative of a generalised shift in European public discourse towards an overt delegitimation of the European project and its re-imagination. In the Italian case, Lega and Movimento 5
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The EU as a Choice: Populist and Technocratic Narratives of the EU in the Brexit Referendum Campaign Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-09 Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
The article investigates the main populist and technocratic narratives employed in the campaign in the run-up to the 2016 British EU referendum. Based on a qualitative dataset comprising 40 selected speeches, interviews and other public interventions by prominent Leave and Remain protagonists and adopting the general orientation of the Discourse Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis,
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Foundations of Regulatory Choice: Precaution, Innovation … and Nonviolence? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-08 Roberto Baldoli,Claudio M. Radaelli
Two foundations of regulatory choice, precaution and innovation, co-exist in the political system of the European Union (EU). At the conceptual level the two foundations are complementary, and are both endorsed by the EU institutions, albeit in different ways and with different legal status. In the real-life of EU policymaking processes, however, precaution and innovation often become the terrain of
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(De-)legitimating Differentiated (dis)integration in the European Union: Between Technocratic and Populist Narratives Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Agnieszka Cianciara
Differentiated integration and disintegration are considered key processes of the European project’s dynamics. Opt-outs and disintegration pressures are typically associated with laggards or proponents of ‘less Europe’ who do not wish to integrate further, but prefer to maintain status quo or take a step back. However, differentiation also serves the needs of champions of ‘more Europe’ who wish to
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Member States and Audible Communication within the EU Council Working Groups Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Petr Kaniok
EU Council working groups still represent a topic that is neglected in EU research. If they are analysed, the effect of socialisation is particularly tested while rationally motivated factors such as a Left-Right position, green/alternative/libertarian (GAL) and traditionalism/authority/nationalism (TAN) positions or approaches towards the EU are left aside. This article analyses how such factors shape
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Democratic Legitimacy and Soft Law in the EU Legal Order: A Theoretical Perspective Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Danai Petropoulou Ionescu,Mariolina Eliantonio
The increased recourse to soft law by the European Union (EU) as a flexible solution to complex social and policy issues has raised several questions about the democratic legitimacy of decision-making at the EU level. With the aim to provide a normative direction for future empirical assessment of EU soft law, this article explores the democratic credentials that EU soft law measures should fulfil
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The European Union and the Liberal International Order in the Age of ‘America First’: Attempted Hedging and the Willingness-Capacity Gap Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Brice Didier
The crisis of the Liberal International Order (LIO) has resulted in, and been amplified by, the unilateral turn taken by the United States (US) under the Trump presidency. In this sense, ‘America First’ resulted in revisionism by the system leader vis-à-vis an order the US created and led for decades. This shift away from a historical US liberal hegemony has been even more consequential as it resulted
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Framing the European Fund for Strategic Investments: A Comparative Analysis of the EU's Institutional Discourse Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Andreas Amerkamp,Paul Jeffrey Stephenson
In 2014, newly elected Commission President Juncker pushed to create the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the aim of creating jobs and stimulating growth. With guarantees offered by the fund and the involvement of the European Investment Bank, the plan was to use €21 billion to leverage €315 billion of investment in the European economy. The EFSI legislative process was very fast with
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Non-elite conceptions of Europe: Europe as reference frame in English football fan discussions Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Regina Weber,Alexander Brand,Arne Niemann,Florian Koch
Discursive approaches to Europe usually focus on elite discourses and target a narrow political understanding of Europe. Against the backdrop of rising Euroscepticism and the known elite-mass divide on issues of European identity, it seems important to shift the focus toward non-elite discourses on Europe. Given that club football is largely Europeanised (player markets, continent-wide club competitions
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Beyond ‘donor-recipient relations’? A historical-institutionalist perspective on recent efforts to modernise EU partnerships with third countries Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-12-12 Niels Keijzer
This paper presents a historical-institutionalist perspective on the EU’s current efforts to modernise its development policy and reform its various relationships with third countries. Applying concepts that endogenise institutional change, the analysis looks into the origin and basis of the policy and describes the various types of development partnership that the EU pursues with third countries.
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What Is the European Union? A Cultural Shared Risk Community! Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Peter Pichler
In this commentary, the author continues his first reflections on European Union cultural history, which opened up this field and introduced the theory of ‘paradoxical coherence’. Revisiting sociological and cultural-historical works by Beck and Gumbrecht, he argues that the EU can be seen as a ‘cultural shared risk community’, the sources of identity-building and sense-making consisting of the European
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The Impact of Brexit on Aid Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Aitor Perez,Iliana Olivie
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A New Scramble for EurAfrica? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Mark Langan
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EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Mark Furness,Simon Lightfoot,Luciana-Alexandra Ghica,Balazs Szent-Ivanyi
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Paradigm Shift or Reinventing the Wheel? Towards a Research Agenda on Change and Continuity in EU Development Policy Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Sarah Delputte,Jan Orbie
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Towards a Functional Division of Labour in EU development cooperation post-2020 Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Patryk Jacek Kugiel
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The Challenge from within: EU Development Cooperation and the Rise of Illiberalism in Hungary and Poland Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Balazs Szent-Ivanyi,Patryk Kugiel
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Irreconcilable Tensions? The EU’s Development Policy in an Era of Global Illiberalism Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Patrick George Holden
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African Agency and EU-ACP Relations beyond the Cotonou Agreement Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Stephen R Hurt
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The Legal Status and Effects of the Agenda 2030 within the EU Legal Order Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Maryna Rabinovych
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Trust, Integrity and the Weaponising of Information: the EU’s Transparency Paradox Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Mark Bradley Field,Sue Roberts
One of the great issues for governments and related organisations everywhere is that of staying close to their citizens and maintaining accountability through the provision of accurate, trustworthy and complete information. The size of an organisation can often impede open and timely information delivery, and the complexity of government structures can cause frustration and suspicion. Given the size
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Integration theories and European education policy: bringing the role of ideas back in Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-07-12 Marina Cino Pagliarello
Education policy, traditionally a fortress of state-building processes, is now being challenged by the emergence of a new dimension at the European level. The Lisbon Strategy of 2000 has not only redefined education as a tool for improving Europe’s competitiveness within the knowledge economy, but it has also significantly expanded the role of the European Commission as a legitimate actor intervening
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Synchronous Online-Teaching on EU Foreign Affairs: A Blended-Learning Project of Seven Universities between E-Learning and Live Interaction Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Friedrich Plank,Arne Niemann
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Book Review: EU Policy Making on GMOs: The False Promise of Proceduralism Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Sarah Lieberman
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Introduction: Innovative Teaching on European (Foreign) Affairs Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Heidi Maurer,Arne Niemann,Friedrich Plank
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Teaching EU Foreign Policy via Problem-Based Learning Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Ben Tonra
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Using Policy Briefs as Assessment to Integrating Research-Led Employability in Foreign Policy Courses Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Simon Lightfoot
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The Council of the EU in Times of Economic Crisis: A Policy Entrepreneur for the Internal Market Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Brigitte Pircher
While many studies have focused on the European Commission and its potential to act as a policy entrepreneur, little research has been undertaken into how intergovernmental institutions as a whole ...
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Teaching the EU in Brexit Britain: Responsive Teaching at a Time of Uncertainty and Change Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Jane O'Mahony
The decision by the electorate of the United Kingdom (UK) in June 2016 marked the first time in its history that a member state of the European Union (EU) voted to leave. For the EU, its story is no longer primarily one of cooperation and integration but also of disintegration. For the UK, implementing Brexit has thrown its economic, geopolitical and territorial models into question in an unprecedented
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Editorial: European Democracy in 2019 Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-12-13 Christopher Huggins
This special section examines the theme on democracy in Europe. In this preface, the section editor, Christopher Huggins, briefly introduces the contributions and places them in the context of debate surrounding contemporary European democracy.
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Comparing the Politicisation of EU Integration during the Euro and Schengen Crises Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-12-13 Leonard August Schuette
Although European integration has become an increasingly salient and controversial topic in domestic politics, the consequences of this politicisation of the European Union for the integration process have not received adequate scholarly attention. To fill this lacuna, this article devises five hypotheses on the effects of politicisation for the integration process, which are subsequently tested against
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Who Is ERIC? The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Governance Tool for Collaborative European Research Infrastructures Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-08-30 Maria Moskovko, Arnljótur Ástvaldsson, Olof Hallonsten
an-European research infrastructures (RIs) have been labelled a ‘pillar’ of the European Research Area initiative and ‘engines’ which are expected to drive forward the European Union (EU) economy by advancing its science and technology and ultimately its competitiveness on the global arena. The focus of this article is on the origins and nature of a policy tool named the European Research Infrastructure
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Measuring Economic Reform Recommendations under the European Semester: ‘One Size Fits All’ or Tailoring to Member States? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Valerie D'Erman, Jörg Haas, Daniel F. Schulz, Amy Verdun
In 2010 the European Semester was created to better coordinate fiscal and economic policies within Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. The Semester aims to tackle economic imbalances by giving European Union (EU) member states country-specific recommendations (CSRs) regarding their public budgets as well as their wider economic and social policies with a view to enabling better policy coordination
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Expertise in European Economic Governance: A Feminist Analysis Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-05-31 Muireann O'Dwyer
Recent years have seen a distinctive transformation in EU economic governance, including the introduction of a regime of oversight and recommendation as well as the establishment of new policymaking, oversight and expert institutions at both the European and member state levels. These changes raise questions about legal and political accountability, and about the current state of integration. Debates
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Monitoring Generic Skills Development in a Bachelor European Studies Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2019-02-28 Johan Adriaensen, Patrick Bijsmans, Afke Groen
To ensure a smooth transition from studies to professional careers, students’ skills and attitudes are often considered of greater value than theoretical knowledge and understanding. Yet, whereas typical academic skills such as research and writing are commonly monitored and trained, generic skills such as teamwork and communication receive scant attention. At Maastricht University, we developed a
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Are Some States Luckier than Others in the Council of the European Union? Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2018-08-30 Stuart A. Brown
When states engage in negotiations in the Council of the European Union, the position of actors relative to their negotiating partners has a substantial impact on outcomes. Those with extreme positions will experience difficulty in winning support, while those in the centre will find states more amenable to their perspective regardless of their actual negotiating power. The bulk of the literature on
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NGOs and Global Trade: Non-State Voices in EU Trade Policymaking Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Diana Potjomkina
Erin Hannah offers a timely and thought-provoking analysis of civil society’s participation in the European Union’s trade policy. Relying on two case studies, the book shows that while the EU has created diverse instruments for engaging with civil society, in practice procedural improvements do not necessarily lead to greater influence for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Going beyond a purely
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Civil Society Organisations beyond the European Union: Normative Expectations and Local Realities Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Aron Buzogány
This article analyses the development of the EU's external civil society agenda and how this is interpreted by various actors. Using qualitative interviews carried out in Ukraine, Georgia and Brussels, the article shows how the EU's external civil society agenda has developed in parallel with the EU's internal ‘governance turn’. Changes in this narrative from a partnership-orientated role towards a
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EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict Journal of Contemporary European Research Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Andi Hoxhaj