Fiscal Policy Coordination and the Future of the Community Method

Enforcing the European Semester: the politics of asymmetric information in the excessive deficit and macroeconomic imbalance procedures

“…Thus, these crises strengthened the Commission's role in economic governance, specifically as analyzed here in its role in managing and ensuring the transparency of critical asymmetric member state information (Ellinas and Suleiman 2011;Chang 2013b;Bauer and Becker 2014a, 2014b, 2016Dehousse 2015;Savage and Verdun 2015). The Six Pack granted the Commission the right to conduct investigations of member state administrative practices as they applied to fiscal statistics, the right to review the fiscal data and transactions of all levels of government within a member state, and the right to sanction member states with financial penalties.…”

“…The euro crisis has also witnessed the rise of the European Parliament (EP) as an additional principal in the surveillance process (Dinan 2014;Rittberger 2014). This paper argues that this intergovernmentalist turn occurred even as ECOFIN approved the Commission's entrepreneurial initiatives for enhanced authority over the member states in the effort to control asymmetric information (Ellinas and Suleiman 2011;Chang 2013b;Becker 2014a, 2014b;Dehousse 2015;Savage and Verdun 2015). Yet, at the same time, as will be shown here, the member states have withheld approval for the Commission's proposed regulation over the quality of MIP statistics that they view as counter to their interests (Conceição-Heldt 2016;…”

O zmianie instytucjonalnej w Europie w okresie kryzysu

“…Eksperci zwracaj¹ uwagê na to, ¿e rooenie rola instytucji miêdzyrz¹dowych i najwiêkszych pañstw cz³onkowskich w polityce europejskiej (Chang 2013). Wzrasta tak¿e ich formalna i nieformalna w³adza nad procesem legislacyjnym oraz instytucjami wspólnotowymi, przede wszystkim Komisj¹ Europejsk¹.…”

Socializing the European Semester? Economic Governance and Social Policy Coordination in Europe 2020

“…(E.g. Kunstein and Wessels 2013;Cisotta 2013;Schout and Mijs 2013;Chang 2013. ) A third, less evident but no less important set of questions concern the nature of the European Semester as an evolving governance process.…”