Futures in EU governance: Anticipatory governance, strategic foresight and EU Better Regulation

IF 1.4 2区社会学 Q1 LAW European Law Journal Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI:10.1111/eulj.12519

Gaby Umbach

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Contemporary politics require a swift and responsive policy-making approach to respond to emergency situations quickly and to anticipate them in a strategic manner. Maintaining decision-making agility in times of urgency makes it necessary to think ahead of stress-impacting situations. To increase systemic resilience, policies must be designed in an adaptive way. Strategic options, futurity of policies and potential futures must be elaborated and kept in sight when developing policies. Anticipatory governance and strategic foresight activities are elements of such an adaptive governance mode. To transform decision-making in a future-oriented way, these forward-planning elements need to be institutionalised to support governance resilience. This article asks how anticipatory governance and strategic foresight are embedded within EU multilevel governance. It investigates the EU Better Regulation Agenda to understand how anticipatory governance already contributes to EU governance. Additionally, it discusses how the institutionalisation of strategic foresight can contribute to EU anticipatory governance.

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欧盟治理的未来：预见性治理、战略前瞻和欧盟更好的监管

当代政治需要迅速反应的决策方法，以快速应对紧急情况，并从战略角度对其进行预测。要在紧急时刻保持决策的灵活性，就必须提前考虑影响压力的情况。为了提高系统的复原力，必须以适应性的方式制定政策。在制定政策时，必须详细阐述战略选择、政策的未来性和潜在的未来。预测性治理和战略展望活动就是这种适应性治理模式的要素。要以面向未来的方式改变决策，就必须将这些前瞻性规划要素制度化，以支持治理复原力。本文探讨了如何在欧盟多层次治理中嵌入预期治理和战略展望。文章通过对欧盟 "更好监管议程"（Better Regulation Agenda）的调查，了解预见性治理是如何为欧盟治理做出贡献的。此外，文章还讨论了战略前瞻的制度化如何促进欧盟的预见性治理。

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期刊介绍： The European Law Journal represents an authoritative new approach to the study of European Law, developed specifically to express and develop the study and understanding of European law in its social, cultural, political and economic context. It has a highly reputed board of editors. The journal fills a major gap in the current literature on all issues of European law, and is essential reading for anyone studying or practising EU law and its diverse impact on the environment, national legal systems, local government, economic organizations, and European citizens. As well as focusing on the European Union, the journal also examines the national legal systems of countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and relations between Europe and other parts of the world, particularly the United States, Japan, China, India, Mercosur and developing countries. The journal is published in English but is dedicated to publishing native language articles and has a dedicated translation fund available for this purpose. It is a refereed journal.