{"title":"The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine","authors":"Tiziano Zgaga","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2210967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2210967","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT NextGenerationEU, the recovery programme adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, did not provide the EU with fiscal sovereignty. Fiscal sovereignty remains under the control of the member states which are, however, constrained by the Stability and Growth Pact. Comparative federalism shows that central fiscal sovereignty requires granting the power to tax to the centre but without impairing the fiscal sovereignty of the units. The co-existence of two distinct, yet connected, fiscal sovereignties (EU and member states) would mean departing from the regulatory model of fiscal integration created with the Maastricht Treaty, and would thus require treaty change. Future research should perform a more thorough comparison between the EU and fiscally centralized and decentralized federations. Qualitative comparative analysis could complement process tracing and systematic content analysis to identify combinations of conditions that make the co-existence of fiscal sovereignties possible in consolidated federal polities – and still impossible in the EU. Books reviewed Paul Dermine (2022) The New Economic Governance of the Eurozone. A Rule of Law Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Federico Fabbrini (2022) EU Fiscal Capacity. Legal Integration After COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brady Gordon (2022) The Constitutional Boundaries of European Fiscal Federalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tomasz P. Woźniakowski (2022) Fiscal Unions. Economic Integration in Europe and the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"703 - 709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49232691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘It is like déjà vu all over again’ an inside analysis of the management of EU migration reform","authors":"S. Smeets, D. Beach","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2209273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2209273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the EU’s third attempt to reform its asylum and migration regime. Our focus is on process management. Instead of looking at positions or policy substance, we analyse how to manage the migration reform negotiations. We use the method of embedded process tracing to analyse, in real-time, the interplay between the member states and EU institutions, from the Commission’s Pact on Migration of September 2020 until the end of the French Presidency in June 2022. On a conceptual level, we unpack the notion of an the EU that is ‘failing forward’ in this, and in other major, crisis reforms. We argue that this failing forward notion obscures a variety of patterns of intra- and inter-institutional coordination. We conclude that, in spite of déjà vu sentiments, the role of the European Council, the Commission, and the Council of Ministers was notably different during this round, and arguably more effective.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"889 - 909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47117419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De facto differentiated disintegration in the European Union. The case of Poland","authors":"Agnieszka K. Cianciara","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2212122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2212122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to shed light on the evolution of demand for differentiation in Poland. First, it argues that since EU accession Poland has moved from instrumental towards quasi-constitutional differentiated integration, and towards differentiated disintegration de facto. Second, it conceptualizes non-compliance in the rule of law area as a manifestation of differentiated disintegration de facto understood as polity-related deliberate and enduring circumvention of EU legal framework. Third, it argues that this mode of de facto differentiation constitutes a challenger strategy of Poland’s populists in power aimed at undermining the foundations of the European polity. Accordingly, the Polish case provides an illustration of ‘post-functionalism reversed’: it is not a Eurosceptic public that constrains a pro-integrationist government, but a Eurosceptic government that drives differentiation and disintegration without explicit support from the largely pro-integrationist public.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"911 - 926"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44422470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU","authors":"Christakis Georgiou","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2201699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2201699","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The debate on the necessity of a federal fiscal capacity in the EU has featured prominently on the EU’s agenda over the past decade. New Generation EU marks a historic breakthrough in that regard. This breakthrough has been accomplished in order to fulfil macroeconomic stabilization functions, but the bulk of the funding has been earmarked for green transition projects. This paper asks whether a federal budget has added value in relation to the green transition and provides a theoretically informed answer. It ends with a call to revise articles 311 and 312 TFEU so as to grant fiscal powers to the EU","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"871 - 887"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43534994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it","authors":"Vladimír Handl, Tomáš Nigrin, Martin Mejstřík","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2190110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During Angela Merkel’s term as Chancellor, Germany did not play a leading role in the realm of security and defense; moreover, estrangement with the German government’s allies based on its attitude towards Putin’s Russia slowly grew. Since Russia’s war against Ukraine began, the situation has changed dramatically. This article will show the different reactions of the Visegrád 4 (V4) countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary) to the Zeitenwende [turning point] in Germany, focusing on Germany´s relationship with Russia, its energy security policy, defense, and support for Ukraine. The question is whether Germany is shaping the Zeitenwende into a 180° turnaround in policy or a 360° pirouette resulting in continuity of its former policies and further mutual loss of trust. Germany is unlikely to become a pre-eminent military leader but can make positive contributions if it implements the Zeitenwende and regains the trust of its eastern partners.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"503 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46349460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia","authors":"J. Jauhiainen, Heidi Erbsen","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2190109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190109","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The war in Ukraine in 2022 resulted in the rapid, large-scale migration of Ukrainians both inside Ukraine and to the European Union (EU). In response, the European Commission and Council activated the ‘Temporary Protection Directive’ (TPD, 2001) which had been dormant for two decades. This granted Ukrainians fleeing to the EU residence permits, access to the labor market, accommodation, medical care, education for minors, and social and welfare assistance. We analyzed how war-fleeing Ukrainians were received in the EU at three territorial-administrative levels. Through discourse analysis at the supranational (EC and CE), national (Estonian) and subnational (local Estonian) levels and a survey on how 500 temporary protected Ukrainians in Estonia were covered by the TPD, we highlight the hierarchic implementation of the TPD. This case shows the potential and pitfalls of participatory multilevel governance (MLG) for a more sustainable presence and future for the Ukrainian (temporary) diaspora in the EU.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"413 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49638199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities","authors":"N. Chaban, Ole Elgström","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2190107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190107","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Employing a perceptual approach to EU foreign policy studies, we argue that extensive changes following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have created important opportunities for diminishing many of the perceptual gaps that existed between the EU and Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea. We distinguish between changes in Ukraine’s and the EU’s attitudes towards each other, contextual changes as a result of the war and changes in EU policy on the candidacy of Ukraine – shifts that open up new avenues for closing existing perceptual gaps but also create challenges for EU diplomacy. We apply this theorisation to understand one aspect of Europe’s transformation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine – the transformation of the EU’s public diplomacy. We venture that the opportunities for perceptual changes that have occurred may only be realized if the EU commits to a ‘new’ public diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"521 - 537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48463713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on Sino-European relations","authors":"Alexandra. Hennessy","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2201497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2201497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses the development of Sino-European relations following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. I argue that the behaviour of European and Chinese leaders is driven by the availability and attractiveness of outside options. While both sides want to reduce their dependence on the other, neither actor seeks a radical decoupling. Measures to diversify supply chains, the negotiation of new trade agreements around the world, and the ‘technology war’ have made Beijing’s outside options less favourable. Europeans are emboldened to articulate their interests more forcefully, particularly in the areas of human rights, scrutiny of foreign funding, and economic coercion. China, in turn, provides diplomatic cover for Russia but resists undermining Western sanctions.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"559 - 575"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48714782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations","authors":"M. Carbone","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2190108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that to better understand the evolution of EU-Africa relations it is necessary to decentre the EU’s external action and concurrently recentre Africa’s international agency, while also interrogating the rise of new powers in Africa. Decentring Europe and recentring Africa means challenging the assumptions that Africa needs Europe more than Europe needs Africa and that African states should align with the EU in international settings in defence of the existing global order. By provincializing the EU and engaging extensively with African voices, this article uses the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to unpack key divides between the EU and Africa on whether and how to isolate Russia, explore its consequences for food security in Africa, and expose some contradictions in the EU’s energy policy. It concludes that reconstruction in EU-Africa relations means that the EU should make grounded efforts to treat Africa as a true partner, not an afterthought.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"539 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46166533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process","authors":"Veronica Anghel, Jelena Džankić","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2190106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2190106","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) revived the enlargement process in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. That reaction compares to how the EU utilized this process following the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. In this paper, we argue that on neither occasion was the inclusion of more states within EU borders a preferred EU working agenda. Instead, the EU used enlargement as a stabilization and security-building mechanism without guaranteeing membership as the end state. This observation has implications for the future of the enlargement process. We argue that the outcome of the previous rounds of enlargement was reactive and context-driven. Absent those same contextual factors, and although the EU reacts to the Russia-Ukraine war in a familiar sequence of incomplete decision-making, the outcome of this wartime enlargement negotiation process points in a different direction.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"487 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48135468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}