Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions

Petri, Franziska; Biedenkopf, Katja

doi:10.1080/13501763.2021.1918216

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“…In comparison, when it comes to internal actions, where the EP acts as a co-decider, its ambitions became more moderate, often offering concessions and flexibility to member states, especially on issues related to (implementation) costs. Therefore, non-legislative resolutions tended to be seen as "cheap talk" and portrayed more adversarial interactions, while legislative debates tended to be more technical and prone to accommodating contrasting views (Biedenkopf, 2019;Burns, 2019;Petri & Biedenkopf, 2021;Vogeler, 2022;Wendler, 2019). This behaviour is not unique to this policy area; with the extension of co-decision, we have seen an increasing distinction between non-legislative actions, where the EP can be more ambitious and formulate "wish lists", and legislative actions, where it needs to be more "realistic" or "responsible" in order to find compromises with the Council (Burns, 2013;Ripoll Servent, 2015).…”

Section: A Trade-off Between Influence and Ambition?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing Climate Policy Ambition in the European Parliament

Kinski

Servent

2022

PaG

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The European Union’s climate policy is considered quite ambitious. This has led to a growing interest among political scientists investigating the European Parliament’s ability to negotiate such ambitious climate legislation. These studies generally focus on the voting behaviour of members of the European Parliament, which allows us to know more about their positions when it comes to accepting or rejecting legislative acts. However, we know surprisingly little about how they debate and justify their positions in Parliament. In these debates, members of the European Parliament not only identify the problem (i.e., climate change and its adverse effects) but also discuss potential solutions (i.e., their willingness or ambition to fight and adapt to climate change). In addition, plenary debates are ideal for making representative claims based on citizens’ interests on climate action. Therefore, this article aims to understand how climate policy ambitions are debated in the European Parliament and whose interests are represented. We propose a new manual coding scheme for climate policy ambitions in parliamentary debate and employ it in climate policy debates in the ninth European Parliament (2019–present). In doing so, this article makes a methodological contribution to operationalising climate policy ambition from a parliamentary representation and legitimation perspective. We find debating patterns that connect quite detailed ambitions with clear representative claims and justifications. There is more agreement on what to do than how to get there, with divides emerging based on party, ideological, and member-state characteristics.

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Section: A Trade-off Between Influence and Ambition?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing Climate Policy Ambition in the European Parliament

Kinski

Servent

2022

PaG

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“…The third discussion concerns the impact of populist parties on climate and environmental policies. A number of recent studies have analyzed both the output and the outcome dimensions, but this remains a less explored yet promising field of research (Huber et al 2021;Petri and Biedenkopf 2021;von Homeyer et al 2021). The few studies that focused on the output dimension of policies propagated by populist parties show that, against expectations, energy and climate policy efforts do not always weaken when populists are strong.…”

Section: Effects Of Climate and Environmental Populismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism and nature—the nature of populism: New perspectives on the relationship between populism, climate change, and nature protection

Buzogány

Mohamad-Klotzbach

2021

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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“…Scholars dealing with the politicisation of EU foreign policy have noted that various aspects of the EU's actions enter public debate, mostly visible in areas such as trade (De Bièvre et al 2020) and climate (Petri and Biedenkopf 2021). Other issues, including development aid (Hackenesch et al 2021), sanctions (Crombois 2019), multilateral governance and security (Barbé and Morillas 2019) have also recently been analysed.…”

Section: Parliaments As Conducive Venues Of Politicisation Of Neighbourhood Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More importantly, however, it is the key whether radical parties take part in debates. Scholars, analysing politicisation in other aspects of European integration, point to the fact that radical actors trigger the processes of polarisation (Hutter and Grande 2014, Petri and Biedenkopf 2021. This is because these actors are utilising specific framesidentitarian and culturalthat are specifically prone to increased polarisation.…”

Section: Parliaments As Conducive Venues Of Politicisation Of Neighbourhood Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours

Góra

2021

European Security

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The European Union's security depends on how stable and peaceful its neighbours are, and yet the security situation around it has been deteriorating in recent years. The EU policies designed to stabilise the neighbourhoodthe European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and EU enlargementwere originally designed as "low politics" of foreign policy focusing on economic instruments and tools of democratisation, but in time security became a prime concern. The article firstly shows how the European Parliament and national parliaments narrate these challenges in the neighbourhood and how security-related concerns become central to the ENP and enlargement. Secondly, in capturing the security concerns, it also shows how such changes contribute to the politicisation of relations with neighbours and how these processes differ between national and supranational level. Empirically, the politicisation of the ENP and EU enlargement in national parliaments (the UK, Poland and Ireland) and the European Parliament between 2004 and 2014 is compared and analysed.

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Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Framing Climate Policy Ambition in the European Parliament

Framing Climate Policy Ambition in the European Parliament

Populism and nature—the nature of populism: New perspectives on the relationship between populism, climate change, and nature protection

It's security stupid! Politicisation of the EU’s relations with its neighbours

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