Le gouvernement de l’Union européenne revisité : l’éclipse du « dirigisme communautaire »

Smith, Andy

doi:10.3917/poeu.075.0010

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“…Recent developments including the EDF are best understood within a broader context of dirigisme (Smith 2022, pp. 24–27).…”

Section: ‘European Sovereignty’ Across Four Policy Proposalsmentioning

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‘A Sovereign Europe’? Strategic Use of Discourse at the Service of French Economic Interests in EU Politics (2017–2022)

Bora

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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The ‘practice turn’ in European Union (EU) studies has shown that everyday actions, notably discursive practices, are consequential for producing European integration. Yet, an important development has been overlooked by scholars: the emergence of a ‘European sovereignty’ discourse in EU politics. Since President Emmanuel Macron's Sorbonne speech in September 2017, the EU policy of the French government has been structured around the affirmed objective of building ‘European sovereignty’. It supposes that the EU should become more geopolitical and not shy away from defending its own interests in an increasingly disorderly and hostile world. This article enquires into the objectives that President Macron and the French government have sought to realise by introducing this discourse into EU politics. We argue that ‘European sovereignty’ is a discursive practice that instrumentalises security threats to the EU in order to legitimise France's economic policy objectives, most notably the reform of EU competition policy. Our findings derive not only from publicly available documents and speeches but also 72 semi‐directed interviews.

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“…Recent developments including the EDF are best understood within a broader context of dirigisme (Smith 2022, pp. 24–27).…”

Section: ‘European Sovereignty’ Across Four Policy Proposalsmentioning

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‘A Sovereign Europe’? Strategic Use of Discourse at the Service of French Economic Interests in EU Politics (2017–2022)

Bora

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Finally, Brexit, that is the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from EU membership, not only has increased the relative visibility of France and Germany as the two remaining ‘big’ member states. In addition, Brexit led the two countries to re-define and stress their responsibility for the survival and development of the EU even in an area like defense where historically, French-British relations had prevailed (Seidendorf 2022 ; Smith 2022 : 27).…”

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“…While French preferences in competition policy are very old, they were fairly isolated within the EU until recently. EU competition rules and the Commission’s Directorate-General tasked with implementing them, DG COMP, historically had been dominated by a market-oriented policy program (Smith 2022 : 16–19).…”

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Toward a more ‘sovereign’ Europe? Domestic, bilateral, and European factors to explain France’s (growing) influence on EU politics, 2017–2022

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Schramm

2023

Fr Polit

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In recent years, both inside and outside France, scholars and policymakers have emphasized a small and declining French influence on European politics and the political direction of the European Union (EU). By contrast, in 2022, at the end of President Emmanuel Macron’s first term in office, the EU increasingly follows French preferences and ideas. We argue that this renewed French clout is due to the interplay of factors located at different levels of government: a centralized political system and careful preparation of policy objectives at the domestic level, together with a more balanced bilateral relationship with Germany and several exogenous shocks hitting the EU, enabled the French President to upload national policy priorities to the European level. We combine a longer-term perspective, which considers the formulation and pursuit of national strategies, with moments of crisis altering the EU’s status quo and leading member states to promote change. We demonstrate France’s influence on EU politics based on developments in three policy fields, namely fiscal policy, competition policy, and defense industrial policy.

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“…4.According to Andy Smith (2021), this socioeconomic regime is characterized by Keynesian economics, state interventionism, national planning, and a dedicated elite of senior civil servants.…”

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The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France

Ducastel,

Rivière,

Ferlazzo

2023

Competition & Change

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This article concentrates on the funding of green transition policies implemented in France during the 2010s. Instead of examining the emerging European Investor State through its “new” public investment policies, such as loans, equity, investment banks, and funds, this article examines the transformations of “older” public investment policies, specifically investment subsidies. We contend that the European Investor State is currently marked by a paradox: while public resources for investment, particularly for green transition investments, are increasing, the means to distribute these resources are diminishing. Austerity measures and new public management policies are undermining territorial administrations, thereby limiting their ability to accurately identify and support beneficiaries. This bureaucratic weakness within the European Investor State significantly affects the effective distribution of subsidies, because they tend to be increasingly concentrated among larger communities and companies, as well as a broad spectrum of private intermediaries. Consequently, the European Investor State appears multifaceted and occasionally contradictory, lacking long-term continuity.

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Le gouvernement de l’Union européenne revisité : l’éclipse du « dirigisme communautaire »

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

‘A Sovereign Europe’? Strategic Use of Discourse at the Service of French Economic Interests in EU Politics (2017–2022)

‘A Sovereign Europe’? Strategic Use of Discourse at the Service of French Economic Interests in EU Politics (2017–2022)

Toward a more ‘sovereign’ Europe? Domestic, bilateral, and European factors to explain France’s (growing) influence on EU politics, 2017–2022

The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France

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