Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies

White, Jonathan

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“…Executive agents thus invoke exceptional circumstances to prioritise the achievement of policy goals (e.g. financial stability) 'whatever it takes', to the detriment of institutionalised norms and procedures (White 2022). Calling on emergency times is also a way to focus attention on political leaders' decisions, elevating them to actual red lines other institutions are expected to abide by, and to seek public confidence in centralised policymaking.…”

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the reordering of EU fiscal governance

Capati

2023

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This paper aims to assess the mode of EU fiscal governance that prevailed in the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, it examines the role of the European Council in the policymaking process for the establishment of two innovative instruments with fiscal implications for the EU – the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the general regime of conditionality (GRC) for the protection of the Union's budget, both adopted through the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) of the supranational system. Combining insights from the 'new intergovernmentalism' and the 'emergency politics' literatures, the paper argues that, in times of emergency, consensus and deliberation become the guiding norms of European integration through the leading role of the European Council even in the context of supranational policymaking. The paper shows that in both cases the European Council exercised quasi-legislative decision-making powers explicitly denied to it by the Treaties, securing a series of political compromises on the two instruments that limited the role of other EU institutions. This contributes to turning the consolidated post-Maastricht paradox of 'integration without supranational policymaking' into the new paradox of 'intergovernmental integration within supranational policymaking'.

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the reordering of EU fiscal governance

Capati

2023

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“…Underscoring the importance of the speedy decisionmaking in crisis (cf. Cross 2017;White 2023). However, one member state representative described how member states could influence the different packages, stating:…”

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The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture: entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

Håkansson

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In recent years, the European Union (EU) has strengthened its foreign, security and defence policy in a remarkable way. Several new supranational security and defence initiatives have been launched and implemented, which have given the European Commission a new and central role in European security and defence policy. These swift developments are puzzling, since foreign policy and security and defence policy have long been understood as the ‘last bastions of sovereignty’ for EU member states and have thus been regarded as the least-likely cases for supranational integration. This thesis shows how the Commission has been the central driver behind these changes; it does so by conducting three focused case studies/articles to explore and explain the evolution of a new and enhanced role for the European Commission in EU security and defence cooperation during the period 2014–2023. By researching the establishment of the European Defence Fund, the EU Military Mobility project and the new policies and initiatives developed after Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022, this dissertation analyses new competences for the European Commission within EU security and defence policy. This dissertation conceptually and analytically builds on diverse strands of integration literature, drawing on neofunctionalism, the Commission’s policy entrepreneurship and agenda setting, and crisis pressure to retrace in detail these three important empirical processes. The main contribution of this dissertation is to show how the European Commission’s initiatives and strategies have been indispensable in the strengthening of EU integration within security and defence.

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A rightful condition for Europe

Eriksen

2024

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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In Europe, the integration process has domesticated international relations, safeguarded member-states’ democracies, and enabled collective action and supranational problem-solving. It has brought about the European Union (EU) and a democratic ‘surplus’. How has this been possible when the binding effect of EU law is grounded neither in the sovereign’s monopoly on power at the European level nor in the final decision-making authority of the EU? An answer to this puzzle is found in the fact that a public coercive framework has been established, which aims at solving the indeterminacy and assurance problems facing international cooperation. The enabling condition of sovereignty is replaced by those of co-legislation and a binding judicial process. The latter creates reasons for deference to legitimate authority and hence a compliance condition. However, since the Union falls short of meeting certain democratic standards, oversteps competences, and is plagued with inertia, there is a call for constitutional reform.

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Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

The Covid-19 pandemic and the reordering of EU fiscal governance

The Covid-19 pandemic and the reordering of EU fiscal governance

The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture: entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

A rightful condition for Europe

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