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The Return of Industrial Policy in the EU: A Chance for Central and Eastern Europe?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This contribution explores the Visegrad four's (V4) responses to the revival of industrial policy in the European Union (EU). To a region so highly industrialised, and so dependent on foreign firms, this revival brings mixed blessings. Industrial policy focused on ‘European champions’ is driving investment towards core regions and firms ...
Vera Šćepanović, Imre G. Szabó
wiley   +1 more source

Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Frame Evolution: Smoothed Temporal Framing Trajectories in Complex Policy Debates

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union faces long‐term governance challenges in contested domains, such as migration management, health data sharing, and facial recognition technology. Across these fields, political debates are shaped by shifting ways in which actors frame problems and solutions. Understanding how such framing contests evolve over time is crucial
Philip Leifeld, Kristijan Garic
wiley   +1 more source

Source over Quantity? The Effect of Civil Society Funding on Access to the EU Commission

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Commission builds relationships with civil society organisations (CSOs) through policy‐relevant meetings and funding. Through these relationships, the Commission seeks to obtain expertise, efficient input and legitimacy for its policy initiatives.
Sandra Martinez‐Böhme
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Consultative Union? Unpacking Parliamentary Stances on Citizen Participation in EU Policy‐Making

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent developments within the European Union (EU) reveal a notable ‘citizen turn’ marked by initiatives aimed at enhancing citizen engagement with EU institutions through deliberative mechanisms. Whilst existing scholarship has extensively examined political elites' perceptions of these participatory tools at the national level, the policy ...
Karolina Borońska‐Hryniewiecka, Jan Kotýnek Krotký   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eurocrats Wanted: Why Some Member States Lag in European Commission Recruitment

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article investigates the underrepresentation of certain member states within the European Commission (EC) and explores the broader challenges of achieving geographical balance in European Union (EU) recruitment. Drawing on the theory of representative bureaucracy, the study systematises factors that shape the attractiveness of EU careers ...
Jarolím Antal, Kateřina Kočí, Nicole Grmelová   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Endogenous ‘Refugee Crisis’: Exploring Frame Drain and Emerging Conflicts in Migration Politics

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Migration governance in Europe is shaped by contesting frames that reflect deeper tensions between security, humanitarianism and sovereignty. This article traces how these frames evolve over time and how the so‐called refugee ‘crisis’ reconfigures framing dynamics and actor relations between 2000 and 2020. Rather than treating the crisis as an
Ece Özlem Atikcan, Tim Henrichsen, Sofie Roehrig   +2 more
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Municipal Bureaucracies in the EU Multilevel Administration: Capacity‐Building, Integration and Co‐optation

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a rich research literature addressing the rise of a genuine multilevel administration (MLA) in the European Union (EU), impacts on municipal bureaucracies remain understudied. This article maps how the MLA affects local bureaucracies, based on a multi‐sited qualitative study of public procurement and environmental departments in 20 ...
Marthe Indset, Linda Alamaa
wiley   +1 more source

European Union energy policy integration: A case of European Commission policy entrepreneurship and increasing supranationalism.

Energy Policy, 2013
Maltby T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconfiguring European Union Migration Governance: From Technocratic Policy Harmonisation to Transactional Diplomacy Under the 2024 Pact on Migration and Asylum

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the structural transformation in European Union (EU) migration governance following the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum of 2024. The negotiation introduced a new layer of decision‐making that augmented the existing technocratic co‐ordination within the Justice and Home Affairs networks with high‐level ...
Midori Okabe
wiley   +1 more source