The European Commission

Nugent, Neill; Rhinard, Mark

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-54333-2

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“…The role of the European Commission as a drive of policy developments in this area should not be ignored. Far from the average international secretariat, the Commission is a legally independent institution with the power to initiate policies, hold governments to account and to 'breath life' into the treaties (Vahl, 1997; see also Nugent and Rhinard, 2015). In the aftermath of focusing events, the Commission is in the position to present new initiatives and provide 'substance' to Council declarations.…”

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European Civil Security Governance

Bossong¹,

Hegemann²

2015

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European Civil Security Governance

Bossong¹,

Hegemann²

2015

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“…The 'reality check' of Europe / EU-focused civic education shows that certainly not all political excursions to the EU nor advice guides for it cover all the core institutions of the EU (Hodson & Peterson, 2017;McCormick, 2017;Green European Foundation, 2015), such as the Council of the EU (Wessels, 2016), the EU Commission (Nugent & Rhinard, 2015) and the European Parliament (Dialer, Maurer & Richter, 2015;Corbett, Jacobs & Shackleton, 2017).…”

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The Eu “Live” in Civic Education: To Experience and Understand the European Union in-Situ: A Model for and Experiences From Political Excursions and Thematic Seminars to and in Brussels

Weber

Kötter

2017

IJ21CE

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Political Excursions to Brussels on EU matters can be a very effective and important methods and format of civic education. Based on experience from practice, this can be the case in particular if they are conceived of, organised and implemented as in-situ seminars, which has been practised in over 40 seminars since 2004. The format we advocate and demonstrate here, with an early qualitative evaluation based on the literature and contrast to other practices and models, is one of an exemplary (by policy field), multi-perspective (different key institutions, players, actors and preferable nationalities on inputting participants or at least experts) approach which is conducted in-situ. This is, however, resource and planning intensive, and requires quite a high degree of experience and expertise, and is not a model which can be taken to a mass-produced regular repeat delivery. The learning and engagement of voluntary participants in non-formal education, in addition to (though at times in partnership with) formal education institutions -such as secondary schools or universities -is very significant and has been shown and evaluated to be of a high level of quality with significant nation-wide appeal in Germany and of staying power in the market for civic education. We also reflect on how this approach may be a basis for genuinely trans-national non-formal civic education in Europe on EU matters.

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“…This article helps to fill these research gaps by presenting a new data set of the crisis management capacities found in the EU. We combed through the institutions which house most of this capacity: the European Commission, the largest bureaucratic organisation within the EU system, which represents supranational perspectives (Nugent & Rhinard, ); and the Council of the EU, which represents national perspectives and is growing its own administrative capacity (Christiansen & Vanhoonacker, ). Together, these institutions contain the most administration capacity of the EU and most of its crisis management capacities.…”

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The European Union's capacities for managing crises

Backman

Rhinard

2017

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This article draws on a comprehensive new data set of crisis management capacities at the European Union level to highlight key patterns in their development and use. Organised within the categories of detection, sense‐making, decision‐making, coordination, meaning‐making, communication, and accountability, the data show considerable accumulation of capacities in detection and sense‐making, while decision‐making capacities lag behind. We find that most capacities are sector‐oriented rather than cross‐sectoral, and reside primarily within the European Commission rather than other EU institutions. Comparing the data to previous studies, we note that capacities overall are increasing and some are undergoing evolution; for example, horizon‐scanning tools once limited to collecting information have increasingly been given an analytical, “information enrichment” function akin to sense‐making.

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The European Commission

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European Civil Security Governance

European Civil Security Governance

The Eu “Live” in Civic Education: To Experience and Understand the European Union in-Situ: A Model for and Experiences From Political Excursions and Thematic Seminars to and in Brussels

The European Union's capacities for managing crises

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