The rotating EU presidency's relevance for EU politics has decreased since the introduction of a permanent council president. However, news salience and framing of the own government acting as the EU ...presidency can amplify publicity for EU affairs. We, therefore, evaluate the visibility and framing of the EU presidency in 12 Austrian newspapers for 2009–2019. We conduct an automated text analysis of 22 presidencies over 11 years, testing several hypotheses statistically, and qualify results via manually coded frames of the Austrian EU presidency in 2018. The results confirm the crucial importance of the domestication of EU politics, underscoring the potential of the presidency to serve as a window of opportunity for public debate. We discuss our findings with reference to the EU's democratic deficit.
The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first ...century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations. It seeks to explain how the relationship evolved through discussion of a number of different policies and agreements, ranging from established areas such as aid, agriculture, trade and security, to new areas such as migration, climate change, energy and social policies. This book successfully challenges a number of widely-held assumptions on the role of the EU in Africa, and at the same time sheds light on the role and identity of the EU in the international arena. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the field of EU external relations as well as practitioners of international development.
This book traces the influence of the European Union on domestic politics and public policies. Whereas the standard books on domestic politics and European integration look at different countries one ...by one, this volume embraces an innovative perspective based on specific concepts, indicators, and a broad range of thematic issues. Representing the cutting edge of theoretical analysis and empirical research on Europeanization, this work will be essential reading for students of the EU and comparative European politics.
This article provides an introduction to the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading
System (ETS). First we describe the legislative development of the EU ETS, its evolution
from free allocation to ...auctioning and centralized allocation rules, its relationship to
the Kyoto Protocol and other trading systems, and its relationship to other EU climate and
energy policies. This is followed by an assessment of the performance of the EU ETS, which
focuses in particular on emissions, allowance prices, and the use of offsets. We conclude
with a discussion of the current debate about the future of the EU ETS and proposals for
changes to both the EU ETS and the climate policy environment in which it operates. (
JEL: Q54, Q58)
In response to the 2008 financial crisis and rising competitive pressures from emerging markets, EU industrial policy has made a major comeback. One of the flagship policies is Smart Specialisation, ...which is located at the intersection of industrial and cohesion policy, and which serves the twin purpose of catalysing the transition of manufacturing sectors to innovative Industry 4.0‐type technologies, as well as inducing social and territorial cohesion and upward economic convergence. Employing a critical political economy perspective that accounts for the interplay between state regulation and capitalism's general dynamic of uneven and combined development, the article argues that Smart Specialisation is unlikely to lead to the proclaimed and much‐needed economic intra‐EU convergence. Although individual Smart Specialisation projects undoubtedly can lead to a technological upgrading, narrowing the gap between advanced high‐tech regions and rapidly de‐industrializing regions, or regions locked into labour‐intensive, low value‐added and less knowledge‐intensive production, remains a pipedream.
The articles in this special issue consider the institutional foundations of the Union’s criminal policy – a highly critical question for the future development of the Area of Freedom, Security and ...Justice. The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and the subsequent legal and political developments have entailed an unprecedented reinforcement of the powers of the EU’s criminal justice agencies Europol, Eurojust and, recently, the establishment of a novel criminal justice body – the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. On the basis of the Treaty mandate, the EU legislator has adopted important reforms such as the EPPO Regulation, and new Europol and Eurojust regulations. In light of these developments, this special issue explores via a multi-disciplinary investigation the extent to which the increased competences of the EU and the stronger presence of EU criminal justice agencies have transformed EU criminal law from an ‘intergovernmental’ regime to a ‘supranational’ and ‘integrated’ framework. We expect that this special issue will enhance further debate on EU criminal justice agencies, encourage novel paths to bridge the boundaries between disciplinary epistemic communities in the study of EU criminal justice and more broadly contribute to an advanced understanding of the role of law in social and political integration.
Regional development is one of the main EU spending priorities through its Cohesion Policy. Brexit is among several influences on the future of the policy, whose evolution is part of a wider ...reshaping of the principles and practice of regional policy in Europe. In the context of emerging policy challenges and recent contributions to the regional policy literature, the article highlights innovation, human capital and effective institutions as three crucial dimensions of future policy. It argues that a shift in regional policy priorities, governance and territorial focus is underway – partly influenced by place‐based policy thinking ‐ at EU level under Cohesion Policy as well as under national regional policies in the EU27 and the UK.
Resumen
El desarrollo regional es una de las principales prioridades de gasto de la UE a través de su Política de Cohesión. Brexit es una de las diversas influencias sobre el futuro de esta política, cuya evolución forma parte de una remodelación más amplia de los principios y la práctica de la política regional en Europa. En el contexto de los desafíos emergentes en materia de políticas y las contribuciones recientes a la literatura sobre políticas regionales, el artículo destaca la innovación, el capital humano y las instituciones efectivas como tres dimensiones cruciales de la política futura. Se argumenta que está por llegar un cambio en las prioridades de las políticas regionales, en la gobernanza y en el enfoque territorial (en parte influido por ideas políticas basadas en el lugar) a nivel de la UE, que se reflejará tanto en la política de cohesión como en las políticas nacionales y regionales en la UE‐27 y el Reino Unido.
抄録:
地域開発は、EUの結束政策(Cohesion Policy)でも貫かれている、支出が優先されるEUの主な政策の一つである。ブレグジッド(Brexit:イギリスのEU離脱)は政策の将来に影響を与える要素の一つであるが、ブレグジッドを進展させることはヨーロッパにおける地域政策の原則と実行の大きな変革の一部である。政策において新しく出現する課題と最近の地域政策研究論文から、本稿は、イノベーション、人的資本、有効な組織体制、以上が将来の政策に不可欠な3要素であることを強調する。場所を基本にした政策思考が部分的に影響してはいるが、結束政策下およびEUの27の加盟国とイギリスの各国の地域政策下のEUレベルで、地域政策の優先性、統治体制、地域への集中は転換期にある。
This article analyses the Juncker Commission's strategy to revitalize the legislative aspects of social Europe. Given the inherent obstacles to forging agreements in the field the Commission was ...required to operationalize a strategy of being a politicalising bricoleur: a bricoleur in the sense it revisited and revised existing tools with the aim of generating change and building an integration moment in social Europe; politicizing in the sense that the Commission exercised social acuity, built broad teams to mobilize for change, and deployed a distinctive discursive strategy. The analysis finds that the Commission had some success, but continued obstacles resulted in reforms being focused on revisions to relatively non‐contentious policies rather than new legislative agreements. The analysis draws attention to the creativity of Commission agency and the constraints within which it operates.
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