Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2143497
J. Simon
ABSTRACT The strong state-centric orientation of the EU crisis discourse has produced an important blind spot that limits our understanding of the Migration Crisis. Conceptually engaging with international migration studies and the politicization/identity nexus that postfunctionalism has put on the map in EU studies, this contribution advances original empirical evidence to visibilize the ongoing intra-EUropean struggle over the meaning of the crisis and the identity relationships underlying it. As the findings show, the externalizations the dominant crisis narrative promotes on the order dimension (vis-à-vis the EU) are clearly challenged by the European Commission as a politicizing agent: Along the EUropean identity markers ‘responsibility‘ and ‘solidarity‘, it has endogenized the Migration Crisis, located difference in the Member State-collective and consistently pursued integrative steps and the development of competencies. Taking into account this ‘crisis resolution‘ counter-narrative allows to enhance our understanding of the Migration Crisis and of the permanent contestedness of European (dis)integration.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-30DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2140516
Camilla Mariotto
ABSTRACT The literature on the Economic and Monetary Union has expanded substantially in the last decade, especially in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis. Important gaps remain, though. Three new books advance new insights both theoretically and empirically. Employing qualitative and quantitative methods, these books study aspects of decision-making during the negotiations of the latest reforms, their consequential institutional design and the oversight interactions between EU institutions. The findings of the books demonstrate how the institutional complexity and weaknesses of this policy field influence the functioning and democratic legitimacy of EU institutions. As a remark, they contribute to the ongoing debate on further reforms in order to increase fairness among and within the EU institutions and the member states, encourage responsiveness and improve political and judicial accountability.
{"title":"Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union","authors":"Camilla Mariotto","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2140516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2140516","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The literature on the Economic and Monetary Union has expanded substantially in the last decade, especially in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis. Important gaps remain, though. Three new books advance new insights both theoretically and empirically. Employing qualitative and quantitative methods, these books study aspects of decision-making during the negotiations of the latest reforms, their consequential institutional design and the oversight interactions between EU institutions. The findings of the books demonstrate how the institutional complexity and weaknesses of this policy field influence the functioning and democratic legitimacy of EU institutions. As a remark, they contribute to the ongoing debate on further reforms in order to increase fairness among and within the EU institutions and the member states, encourage responsiveness and improve political and judicial accountability.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"44 1","pages":"1131 - 1138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42183036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-15DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2134860
Christian Rauh
ABSTRACT The public politicisation of European integration indicates a growing demand for public communication of supranational politics. This paper highlights that the messages the European Commission sends to its citizens do not meet this demand. A text analysis of almost 45,000 press releases the Commission has issued during 35 years of European integration rather indicates an extremely technocratic style of communication. Benchmarked against large samples of national executive communication, public political media, and scientific discourse, the Commission used and notably continues to use very complex language, specialized jargon, and a nominal style that obfuscates political action. This appears disadvantageous in a politicized context and more research on the reasons for this apparent communication deficit is needed.
{"title":"Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020","authors":"Christian Rauh","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2134860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2134860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The public politicisation of European integration indicates a growing demand for public communication of supranational politics. This paper highlights that the messages the European Commission sends to its citizens do not meet this demand. A text analysis of almost 45,000 press releases the Commission has issued during 35 years of European integration rather indicates an extremely technocratic style of communication. Benchmarked against large samples of national executive communication, public political media, and scientific discourse, the Commission used and notably continues to use very complex language, specialized jargon, and a nominal style that obfuscates political action. This appears disadvantageous in a politicized context and more research on the reasons for this apparent communication deficit is needed.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"683 - 701"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46131579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2128282
Cristina Juverdeanu
ABSTRACT EU citizenship’s long-lasting dependency on worker rights has been scrutinised by the literature since the introduction of the status. Three new volumes deal with the intertwined evolution between the two in the longue durée, all by applying the stress tests of our times: Brexit and Euroscepticism. In a complementary way, both nuts and bolts and fissures of EU citizenship emerge and portray a novel citizenship that caters to the mobile, bypassing the sedentariness of national citizenship, but still lacks in the protection of the non-mobile and economically inactive. In the future, the literature could benefit from a closer connection to EU integration theories as well as from a more attentive look at how Brexit is the perfect exposer of both strengths and weaknesses of EU citizenship.
{"title":"The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?","authors":"Cristina Juverdeanu","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2128282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2128282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT EU citizenship’s long-lasting dependency on worker rights has been scrutinised by the literature since the introduction of the status. Three new volumes deal with the intertwined evolution between the two in the longue durée, all by applying the stress tests of our times: Brexit and Euroscepticism. In a complementary way, both nuts and bolts and fissures of EU citizenship emerge and portray a novel citizenship that caters to the mobile, bypassing the sedentariness of national citizenship, but still lacks in the protection of the non-mobile and economically inactive. In the future, the literature could benefit from a closer connection to EU integration theories as well as from a more attentive look at how Brexit is the perfect exposer of both strengths and weaknesses of EU citizenship.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"44 1","pages":"1011 - 1017"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47336592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2129630
Bruno Theodoro Luciano, Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira
ABSTRACT This article aims to assess how national and subnational parliaments have engaged with recent trade negotiations, by examining how they have been responding to the conclusion of the Association Agreement with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), agreed in principle in June 2019. It argues that – even though the executives from both sides have reached an initial agreement – national and some subnational parliamentary actors have been playing a key role in the revision and implementation of this comprehensive inter-regional agreement, succeeding in stalling the accord even before its signature and the beginning of the ratification process. Besides, the article unveils major differences between the involvement of EU and Mercosur’s national and subnational parliaments concerning the agreement: while a high level of parliamentary mobilisation was observed in the EU, so far parliamentary involvement has been quite low in the Mercosur side.
{"title":"Beyond parliamentary ratification: the role of national and subnational parliaments in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations","authors":"Bruno Theodoro Luciano, Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2129630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2129630","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to assess how national and subnational parliaments have engaged with recent trade negotiations, by examining how they have been responding to the conclusion of the Association Agreement with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), agreed in principle in June 2019. It argues that – even though the executives from both sides have reached an initial agreement – national and some subnational parliamentary actors have been playing a key role in the revision and implementation of this comprehensive inter-regional agreement, succeeding in stalling the accord even before its signature and the beginning of the ratification process. Besides, the article unveils major differences between the involvement of EU and Mercosur’s national and subnational parliaments concerning the agreement: while a high level of parliamentary mobilisation was observed in the EU, so far parliamentary involvement has been quite low in the Mercosur side.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"665 - 682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41334947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2115485
P. de Wilde
ABSTRACT Stronger European Union (EU) competencies come with greater media presence, according to existing cross-sectional comparisons. While presence comes with the power to influence public discourse, we know little about how it affects the overall tone of public discourse. This article investigates the effect of the empowerment of EU institutions on media presence and the tone of debate in the EU. It does this through an original claims analysis of newspaper articles in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Poland during the height of the Euro crisis (2011–2012), the Greek bailout crisis (2015), and the Italian budget crisis (2018). EU media presence indeed increases following empowerment. However, this does not result in a more pro-European debate, because pro-European national voices are crowded out. While this does not affect the desirability of austerity, it does harden Eurosceptic public discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2120479
A. Mooij
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the role of the ECB in response to COVID19. The article assess this response in light of the separation of economic and monetary policy. It concludes that the ECB has responded in a more conservative manner during the COVID19 crisis. The ECB did however confirm its willingness to respond to an economic crisis. The ECB has confirmed this willingness by generating a framework of different policy options. This article then concludes that whilst these policies deviate from a very conservative central bank, they are not perse illegal. There is however some indication that the ECB is deviating from its capital key and thereby violating important rules. This violation may erode some of its legitimacy. This article further briefly assesses whether these changes should be considered permanent. Based upon the structure of policies that the ECB is creating these measures indicate permanence.
{"title":"The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate","authors":"A. Mooij","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2120479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2120479","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article evaluates the role of the ECB in response to COVID19. The article assess this response in light of the separation of economic and monetary policy. It concludes that the ECB has responded in a more conservative manner during the COVID19 crisis. The ECB did however confirm its willingness to respond to an economic crisis. The ECB has confirmed this willingness by generating a framework of different policy options. This article then concludes that whilst these policies deviate from a very conservative central bank, they are not perse illegal. There is however some indication that the ECB is deviating from its capital key and thereby violating important rules. This violation may erode some of its legitimacy. This article further briefly assesses whether these changes should be considered permanent. Based upon the structure of policies that the ECB is creating these measures indicate permanence.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"649 - 663"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44339838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2113784
Ileana Daniela Serban
ABSTRACT The European Union-Japan political and international development dialogue is resurging through the Strategic Partnership Agreement recently agreed between the two actors. The current paper argues that in order for this agreement to deliver on its promises, the EU and Japan need to build on their similarities, but more importantly on their differences and lessons learnt through their distinct international experiences. While common values and norms have helped them to agree on such document, building on their differences will help both actors to make this bilateral dialogue more productive and strategic. Through the theoretical lenses of policy entrepreneurship used to consolidate knowledge for development on horizontal cooperation, the paper questions how sharing their experiences as international donors can be of strategic relevance for both the EU and Japan.
{"title":"Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development","authors":"Ileana Daniela Serban","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2113784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2113784","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The European Union-Japan political and international development dialogue is resurging through the Strategic Partnership Agreement recently agreed between the two actors. The current paper argues that in order for this agreement to deliver on its promises, the EU and Japan need to build on their similarities, but more importantly on their differences and lessons learnt through their distinct international experiences. While common values and norms have helped them to agree on such document, building on their differences will help both actors to make this bilateral dialogue more productive and strategic. Through the theoretical lenses of policy entrepreneurship used to consolidate knowledge for development on horizontal cooperation, the paper questions how sharing their experiences as international donors can be of strategic relevance for both the EU and Japan.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"633 - 648"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48834999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-12DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2112035
Emily A. Boykin
ABSTRACT The functional effects of public procurement on European Union (EU) integration have largely been neglected outside legal scholarship. However, government contracting is a crucial policy tool identified in social science disciplines and has considerably shaped European integration at large. This narrative review examines articles that have situated EU public procurement through numerous perspectives of integration with an emphasis on the theoretical frameworks adopted throughout its literature. Findings place public procurement as applied to EU integrative literature in numerous disciplines, and its theoretical breadth, rather than depth, points to advantages of public procurement’s scholarly utility in general.
{"title":"Public procurement and European Union integration: a systematic review","authors":"Emily A. Boykin","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2022.2112035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2022.2112035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The functional effects of public procurement on European Union (EU) integration have largely been neglected outside legal scholarship. However, government contracting is a crucial policy tool identified in social science disciplines and has considerably shaped European integration at large. This narrative review examines articles that have situated EU public procurement through numerous perspectives of integration with an emphasis on the theoretical frameworks adopted throughout its literature. Findings place public procurement as applied to EU integrative literature in numerous disciplines, and its theoretical breadth, rather than depth, points to advantages of public procurement’s scholarly utility in general.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"613 - 632"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42518349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-12DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2110245
Xuechen Chen
ABSTRACT The past two decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the scholarly attention paid to the European Union (EU)’s external relations as well as the nature of the union’s role in world politics. With an aim to contribute to the EU-as-a-power debate, this research explores how EU economic and market-related norms and policies have been promoted and received by taking the EU’s relations with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an empirical case study. Drawing on transnational diffusion literature, this paper seeks to bridge existing scholarly discussions on Normative Power Europe and Market or Regulatory Power Europe, offering a more nuanced understanding of subjects of the EU’s externalization, as well as the processes and effectiveness of the EU’s diffusion of market-related norms and regulatory approaches.
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