The European Commission as a Policy Entrepreneur under the European Semester
This article discusses the impact that the reforms of the European Union’s economic governance since 2011 have had on the European Commission’s role as a policy entrepreneur.
Bernhard Zeilinger
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The European Semester and EU Social Policy [PDF]
AbstractEurope 2020 and the European Semester signal a major change of direction in EU social policy with new governance arrangements, policy orientations and politics. This paper analyses 290 Country Specific Recommendations and 29 interviews to answer two questions: 1) What type of social policy is being advanced by the EU at present?
Paul Copeland, Mary E. Daly, Mary Daly
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Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester. [PDF]
Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of bureaucratic responsiveness and employ multilevel and topic modelling to examine the extent to which the politicisation of European integration affects the outputs of the European Semester:
van der Veer RA, Haverland M.
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Strengthening the European Semester to Achieve Economies of Wellbeing. [PDF]
The environmental crisis, growing levels of social inequalities and rising levels of noncommunicable diseases are all symptoms of economic systems that are failing to generate wellbeing. There is increasing support for the notion that addressing these crises requires shifting the focus from economic growth to a broader range of measures that reflect ...
Stegeman I +3 more
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Building national ownership of the European Semester: the role of European Semester officers [PDF]
The European Semester of socio-economic policy coordination has been criticised for poor capacity to induce national ownership of reforms. Reacting to these pressures, the European Commission intensified bilateral and multilateral efforts to increase the legitimacy of the Semester.
Munta, Mario
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This chapter aims to introduce the European Project Semester concept and the network of providers together with historical and current data on participants and providers. EPS is a one-semester international exchange program designed for engineering, product designers, and business undergraduates.
Grazyna Budzinska +3 more
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THE CONSOLIDATION OF EU GOVERNANCE: THE EUROPEAN SEMESTER AND THE EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION DEEPENING [PDF]
Once it was introduced as an instrument for deepening European integration, the legitimacy, opportunity and utility of European Semester were repeatedly questioned from the perspective of its contribution to the institutionalization of European ...
Nicolae TODERAS, Ana-Maria STAVARU
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The European Commission’s entrepreneurship and the social dimension of the European Semester: from the European Pillar of Social Rights to the Covid-19 pandemic [PDF]
Francesco Corti, Patrik VESAN
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The role of the EU economic governance in the economic framework of the EU
The purpose of this paper is to present the overview of the existing literature that examines the effectiveness of the EU economic governance in delivering on EU economic goals. This topic is especially important in the context of
Paula Letunić
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National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Austria
Austria’s recovery and resilience plan (RRP) was officially adopted by the Council on 13 July 2021. While its main focus lies on implementation of the so-called ‘green’ and ‘digital transitions’, the Austrian RRP also contains a number of reforms and ...
Verena Vinzenz
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