scholarly journals Embedded Bilateralism, Integration Theory, and European Crisis Politics: France, Germany, and the Birth of the EU Corona Recovery Fund*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Krotz ◽  
Lucas Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Integration Theory ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Eu

1. Theorizing EU institutions: Why they matter for politics and international relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot Hodson ◽  
John Peterson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
The Eu

This edition examines why and how European Union institutions matter. It discusses the origins and development of EU institutions as well as their structures, functions, and powers. It also considers how a particular institution fits into the EU’s long wider institutional system, which theories help us best to understand the institution, and how the institution is likely to be changed by the EU’s long constitutional crisis and continued turmoil over the euro. This chapter provides a brief history and a taxonomy of EU institutions and considers the crises confronting EU institutions, including the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016 to leave the EU. It also describes three competing theoretical approaches to the study of EU institutions: integration theory, the new institutionalism, and the separation of powers tradition. Finally, it looks at debates about the accountability of EU institutions.

Towards Harmonised Frameworks for the Liquidation of Non-Systemically Relevant Credit Institutions in the EU?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-587
Author(s):  
Jens-Hinrich Binder
Keyword(s):  
Deposit Insurance ◽  
Banking Union ◽  
Bank Failures ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Single Resolution Mechanism ◽  
Full Harmonisation ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Eu

Abstract As part of its ongoing consultation on the European crisis management and deposit insurance framework currently available for the management of bank failures within the EU generally and the Banking Union in particular, the European Commission has called for the respondents’ views as to the need for further harmonisation of resolution arrangements for banks that currently do not qualify for resolution under the auspices of the Single Resolution Mechanism. In this respect, the consultation takes up a broader discussion on the need for harmonised bank insolvency regimes within the EU, which also ties in with an earlier international debate on the functional characteristics of optimal bank insolvency regimes initiated by international standard setters in the early 2000s. Against this backdrop, the paper analyses the case for further reform, and identifies potential impediments (both technical and political) to be expected in this regard. It argues that, while a full harmonisation of resolution powers and the centralisation of decision-making powers can be expected to address relevant concerns regarding the status quo, a comprehensive harmonisation can also be expected to meet with substantial political opposition, which in turn requires a better understanding of the functional requirements to be met by less ambitious reforms.

European Regional Disparities: The Crucial Source of European un-sustainability

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matjaz Nahtigal
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Regional Disparity ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
European Regional ◽  
The Eu

The ongoing European crisis has revealed many deficiencies in the existing European institutional architecture. One of the crucial deficiencies is the unsustainable European regional disparity between the most developed European regions and those regions that are falling behind—a gap that is growing. This pattern of development creates an unsustainable pattern for the future development of the EU. The gap between the advanced segments of society with access to up-to-date knowledge, skills, technology, capital, and other resources and the excluded segments of society is also growing within the advanced European regions. Such observations indicate the need for far stronger anti-dualist economic, social, and legal policy at all levels of European polity. The EU’s response to the crisis has been inadequate as it has ignored the diversity of needs as well as opportunities for local and regional populations across the EU. Instead of focusing the economic, social, and legal reconstruction on a “one size fits all” model imposed from the top, the EU should spur local and regional innovations, initiatives, and development dynamics from below. Thus, in the EU, we need more policy space as well as more opportunities for economic, legal, social, and political innovations at the local, regional, and national levels. We need to create an EU that supports—not suppresses—diversity, sustainability, plurality, and the co-existence of institutional models. The idea of subsidiarity, diversity, and initiatives from below should be revived in order to create a more sustainable future for the EU.

11. Normative Theory and the EU: Between Contract and Community

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bellamy ◽  
Claudia Attucci
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the input of normative theory to European integration theory. It first provides a historical background on social contract theory in Europe, followed by an analysis of John Rawls’s work as a way to explore the contribution of contractarian thinking to the normative dilemmas confronting the European Union. In particular, it considers Rawls’s two principles of justice. It also discusses three approaches that emphasize the centrality of democracy and have informed normative assessments of the democratic credentials of the EU, focusing on the writings of Jurgen Habermas, the national limits to the EU, and the normative position that makes sense of the EU’s character as ‘betwixt and between’ the nation state and a supranational institution. The chapter concludes with an assessment of how enlargement illustrates both the appeal of the normative approach and the difficulties it faces.

Decision-making in security and defense policy: Towards supranational inter-governmentalism?

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolyon Howorth
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Major Decision ◽  
The Eu

For scholars and practitioners of European politics alike, the distinction between supranationalism and inter-governmentalism has always been fundamental. This distinction has underpinned the various schools of European integration theory, just as it has remained crucial for European governments keen to demonstrate that the Member States remain in charge of key policy areas. Nowhere is this considered to be more central than in the area of foreign and security policy, which has consciously been set within the rigid intergovernmental framework of Pillar Two of the Maastricht Treaty and, under the Lisbon Treaty, remains subject to the unanimity rule. However, scholarship on the major decision-making agencies of the foreign and security policy of the EU suggests that the distinction is not only blurred but increasingly meaningless. This article demonstrates that, in virtually every case, decisions are shaped and even taken by small groups of relatively well-socialized officials in the key committees acting in a mode which is as close to supranational as it is to intergovernmental.

scholarly journals Demokratyczna legitymizacja prawa – tworzenie i stosowanie prawa (zarys problemu)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Tomasz Bekrycht
Keyword(s):  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Philosophy Of Law ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article by the way of introduction is a sketching out some remarks from a perspective of philosophy of law concerning the contemporary crisis, which currently take place in many countries in Europe and in the EU. The author claims that the discussions and disputes over the nowadays European crisis is based on out-of-date paradigm presumptions such as legal positivism and post-totalitarian models of law. To solve the disputes the author proposes reflection based on conception of a communication model of law and community citizens’ idea.

scholarly journals The Impact of Brexit on EU Policies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ferdi De Ville ◽  
Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

While the result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest, relatively little has been written on the impact of Brexit on the EU. Where academics have addressed the issue, they have tended to either see Brexit through the lens of European ‘(dis)integration’ theory or focused on its ‘static’ effects, assessing the impact of removing the UK from the EU’s policymaking machinery based on its past behaviour. This editorial sets out the overarching rationale of this thematic issue and introduces some key analytical elements drawn on by the individual contributions. Given that Brexit has so far not set in train major EU disintegration, the focus is on the detailed impact of the UK’s exit across specific policy areas and on problematising the notion that it necessarily implies a more socially progressive turn in EU policies. Our starting point is the fundamental uncertainty surrounding the future EU–UK relationship, and the process of arriving there. This points to the importance of focusing on the ‘dynamic’ impacts of Brexit, namely adjustment in the behaviour of EU actors, including in anticipation of Brexit, and the discursive struggle in the EU over how to frame Brexit. Policy change may also occur as a result of small, ‘iterative’ changes even where actors do not actively adjust their behaviour but simply interact in new ways in the UK’s absence. Several of the issue’s contributions also reflect on the UK’s role as a ‘pivotal outlier’. The editorial concludes by reflecting on how we analyse the unfolding Brexit process and on what broader insights this thematic issue might offer the study of EU politics.

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