{"title":"Pumps for the Action on the European Union in the Scope of the European Agenda on Security","authors":"V. Terziev, Marin Petkov, Krastev Dragomir","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3838629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3838629","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union aims to ensure that people live in an area of freedom, security and justice, without internal boundaries . Europeans need to feel confident that, wherever they move within Europe, their freedom and their security are well protected, in full compliance with the Union's values, including the rule of law and fundamental rights. In recent years new and complex threats have emerged highlighting the need for further synergies and closer cooperation at all levels. Many of today's security concerns originate from instability in the EU's immediate neighbourhood and changing forms of radicalisation, violence and terrorism. Threats are becoming more variable and more international, as well as increasingly cross-border and cross-sectorial in nature. These threats require an effective and coordinated response at European level. All the EU institutions have agreed that we need a renewed Internal Security Strategy for the coming five years .","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123297050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU Break-Up? Mapping Plausible Pathways into Alternative Futures","authors":"Niclas Meyer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3228545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3228545","url":null,"abstract":"Following Brexit, the rise of populist Eurosceptics across the EU, Central Eastern Europe's flirtation with 'illiberal democracy' and the sovereign debt crisis, which essentially still remains unresolved ten years after it started, even some of the EU’s most enthusiastic supporters are today wondering whether the EU could actually break apart. In the paper, I propose the scenario-planning method to address this question and to think about the future of the EU in a structured way. While the method is already well established in the study of socio-technical systems, the paper tests its transferability to the political economy of the EU. Along two drivers, the material struggle to tame globalization and the ideational struggle to fill the void that is resulting from the deconstruction of neoliberalism, the paper maps four plausible pathways into alternative futures. I conclude with a discussion of the potential of scenario-planning to improve the transfer of knowledge from academia into practice.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"54 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129355279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commento a Montanaro E Tonveronachi (A Comment to Montanaro E Tonveronachi)","authors":"M. Onado","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3218943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3218943","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Italian Abstract:</b> Le banche europee, e quelle italiane non fanno eccezione, sono cresciute molto grazie all’avvento dell’euro, secondo molti sono cresciute troppo. Hanno inoltre accumulato problemi strutturali che spiegano i risultati poco incoraggianti dei test svolti da Montanaro e Tonveronachi (2017). Questi problemi non possono essere risolti solo dalla ripresa ciclica, ma richiedono soluzioni più ampie e incisive di quelle, pur importanti, finora attuate a livello europeo. A differenza di altri paesi, l’Europa non ha proposto indagini né rapporti ufficiali sulle cause profonde della crisi e sul tipo di sistema bancario che vogliamo.European, and among them Italian banks, have grown too large since the inception of the euro. <br> <b>English Abstract:</b> European, and among them Italian banks, have grown too large since the inception of the euro. They have accumulated structural problems underlying the results of the stress tests proposed by Montanaro and Tonveronachi (2017). These problems cannot be automatically solved by the cyclic upturn and require wider and more ambitious solutions at the European level. Differently from other countries, the EU has not produced reports or formal investigations on the deep causes of the financial crisis, and notably has not discussed what sort of banking system it wants.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127254533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die EU-Insolvenzrichtlinie Zu Vorinsolvenzlichen Verfahren aus Ordnungspolitischer Perspektive (The EU Directive on Preventive Restructuring Frameworks from a Ordoliberal Perspective)","authors":"G. Schnabl, K. Siemon","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3214423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3214423","url":null,"abstract":"Das Papier analysiert die EU-Richtlinie zum vorinsolvenzlichen Verfahren (2016/0359 (COD)) vor dem Hintergrund der anhaltend lockeren Geldpolitik aus ordnungspolitischer Perspektive. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden, durch strategische Kreditvergabe an Unternehmen im vorinsolvenzlichen Verfahren auf Kosten anderer Glaubiger auf Bewertungsgewinne durch Insolvenz zu spekulieren. Zudem kann in einem Umfeld zunehmender Zombifizierung die Haftung von wirtschaftlich schwachen Unternehmen auf Kosten von leistungsfahigen Unternehmen und Banken aufgeweicht werden. Aus ordnungspolitischer Sicht ist die Richtlinie deshalb kritisch zu betrachten.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121293677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sources of European Union law","authors":"V. Terziev, Marin Petkov, Krastev Dragomir","doi":"10.18769/IJASOS.455675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18769/IJASOS.455675","url":null,"abstract":"EU law is a separate legal framework, different from international law, and integrated into the legal systems of the Member States. The Union's legal framework is based on autonomous legal sources. Different nature of these sources requires the introduction of a hierarchy among them. At the top are the primary law enshrined in the Treaties and the general principles of law followed by international treaties concluded by the Union and by secondary law based on the Treaties.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121514385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"European Union Tourism Policy: An Institutional Theory Critical Discourse Analysis","authors":"Judith Estol, M. Camilleri, X. Font","doi":"10.1108/TR-11-2017-0167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-11-2017-0167","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This research uses the institutional theory perspective to better understand the social dynamics of the European Union (EU) tourism policy and its directions. The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the processes, content and outcomes of EU tourism policy.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000A thorough literature review involving a critical discourse analysis on the regulative, normative and cultural elements of institutionalisation improves our understanding of the EU policy, in terms of its processes, content and outcomes. Therefore, this paper explores how the European institutions have incrementally legitimised tourism policy among Member States.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Over the years, the EU’s policies were intended to enhance the European single market whilst supporting the growth of the industrial competitiveness, sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. This has inevitably led to the development of new policies in the realms of tourism.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This contribution has identified a gap in academic research, as it reports about the evolution of EU tourism policy and on the conditions of how it has been planned, organised and implemented. It also exposes the challenges of institutionalising tourism policy in intergovernmental institutions.\u0000","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120973893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU Transfers and Euroscepticism: Can't Buy Me Love?","authors":"A. Borin, E. Macchi, Michele Mancini","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3194471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3194471","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political parties’ stances and transfer records from EU institutions. We focus on the regional Cohesion Policy, within which the Convergence Objective program offers a quasi-experimental framework that allows us to single out these effects by means of a regression discontinuity approach. Results show that EU transfers have mitigated the rise of Eurosceptic attitudes and reduced the political consensus for anti- EU parties in long-time recipient regions. We estimate that increasing the regional per capita EU transfers by 1000€ over the 2000-2014 period reduces the share of Eurosceptic individuals by about 8 percentage points and voters’ support for anti-EU parties by 10 percentage points. The effects are homogeneous across different socio-economic groups, including the most disadvantaged ones. Other attitudes that are often associated with Euroscepticism (i.e. anti-trade and anti-immigration stances) are not substantially affected by EU regional transfers.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123931765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU-Compatible State Measures and Member States Interests in Public Services: Lessons from the Case of Hungary","authors":"T. Horváth, Ildikó Bartha","doi":"10.17573/cepar.v16i1.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17573/cepar.v16i1.362","url":null,"abstract":"National interest, also as a critisism against the pradigm of New Public Management (NPM), is very much emphasised nowadays in public policies, even in sector ones. This article is about a removal from the classical meaning of general (public) interest to that new approach represented by certain EU Member States and the reasons behind. Our analysis focuses on contextual motives and impacts of these changes illustrated by the Hungarian case. The result shows that the market of public utility services has already been influenced by direct political considerations. Our findings indicate that these understandings for legitimate influence on EU market rules can also be derived from the legal framework itself. Measures examined in the paper run completely counter to the spirit of the original intention of the founders of the integration, and recent changes in EU law do not seem to raise unavoidable obstacles to such cases. Lessons of this case may be relevant for other EU Member States as well, at least for those from the Central-European region.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126510383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Inherently Undemocratic EU Democracy: Moving Beyond the ‘Democratic Deficit’ Debate","authors":"E. Nanopoulos, Fotis Vergis","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3197183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3197183","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the debate on the democratic ‘deficit’ or ‘default’ of the EU, both generally and specifically with reference to the Euro-crisis, is misplaced. What is usually perceived as a crisis of EU democracy is a manifestation of a more systemic displacement of democracy, as an inherent feature of the European project. This assumption is explored by examining the ideological and normative influences that informed the EU’s construction, as well as the forces that have continued to provide a vehicle for those influences to take political and legal form. These suggest that the undemocratic nature of the EU is necessary for the survival and perpetuation of the Union’s specific vision of a common (free) market, and thus of contemporary European capitalism, as well as for the affirmation and continuity of the EU bureaucracy and a symbiotic world of socio-economic interests. Consequently, the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU cannot be palliated through institutional reform. Moreover, the EU will likely increasingly engage in a process of building European identity based on a singular vision, resulting in the gradual exclusion of those who do not share a commitment to the EU’s market telos and the marginalisation of substantive democratic critique.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131417621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of the Capital Markets Union: Towards Regulatory Harmonisation and Supervisory Convergence","authors":"Sérgio Coimbra Henriques","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2983809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2983809","url":null,"abstract":"The Council is a crucial intergovernmental institution of the European Union. However, the complex, opaque and consensual character of the decision-making process in the Council puts its legitimacy into question. Intergovernmentalist theory posits that it is sufficiently legitimised, indirectly, by the member state governments. Constructivist research, on the other hand, suggests that socialisation might disturb the relaying of positions from the national to the supranational level, as the former approach implies. This paper aims to explore these issues, in particular related to representation and consensus. It contains an analysis of material generated in in-depth interviews. The Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative serves as an umbrella term for regulatory changes directed at the overall development of European capital markets. As such, when analysing the legal framework of the CMU, it is important to note that this involves an undertaking which goes beyond the regulation of financial systems, also aiming to achieve supervisory convergence throughout the member states of the European Union. Indeed, it is perhaps one of the clearest examples of federal implications within the EU. All the synchronous movements enacted into law, leading towards harmonisation and supervisory convergence, show us that the CMU is an foundational piece in a collective journey towards ever greater integration in terms of economic governance and economic policies. Nonetheless, even if the CMU is one of the few cross-country risk-sharing mechanisms available to the EU, its implementation faces difficulties (as well as the looming Brexit) that demand careful analysis.","PeriodicalId":296326,"journal":{"name":"International Institutions: European Union eJournal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125142049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}