The EU’s current crisis and its policy effects: research design and comparative findings

Abstract:

The paper summarises a collaborative international research project comparing the impact of the ongoing conglomerate of crises in nine EU policies. All of them saw significant crisis-induced pressures and challenges. Beyond changes in discourse, the crisis-induced pressures have, in many areas, also triggered a rather sizable amount of policy change. Considering EU competences, no single example of re-nationalisation was found, but many new EU-level tasks. The governments were of prime importance in immediate crisis management but supranational institutions and processes continue to matter.

This article forms part of a special issue called EU Policies in Times of Crisis.

Routledge: Journal of European Integration: Vol.38, No.3, March 2016: Find other articles in this special issue http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/38/3

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