The EU Political System After the 2019 European Elections

ISBN-13: 9783031123375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 519 str.

Olivier Costa; Steven Van Hecke

Opis

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EU’s politics, institutions, and policies. Special attention is paid to the impact of these events on the different political forces as well as on the Union’s institutional balance, its priorities and the reform of its budget and policies. Because of the many post-electoral uncertainties, the book also takes into account how the relations between the Parliament, the European Council and the new Commission have developed. Furthermore, it analyses the capacity of the von der Leyen Commission to implement an ambitious programme, especially in the context of an unfolding pandemic. The objective of this book is to study the 2019 electoral sequence (parliamentary elections, appointment of EU institutions leaders, investiture of the Commission, new legislative programme) and determine its influence on the main institutional and political challenges for the 2019-2024 legislature. In other words, the volume deals with the question of who holds the EU’s leadership after the 2019 elections and how it handles the 2020-2021 pandemic.

Spis treści

1. Introduction (Olivier Costa & Steven Van Hecke)

POLITICS

2. EU Citizen Participation “in the Union’s Democratic Life”: A Policy and Legal Analysis (Alberto Alemanno)

3. Higher turnout at the expense of representativeness? The 2019 European elections against the backdrop of a socio-economically biased voter turnout (Michael Kaeding & Stefan Haussner)

4. Unpacking legislative turnover in the 2019 European Parliament elections (Isabelle De Coninck)

5. The Life and Death of Spitzenkandidaten: What Role is Left for European Political Parties? (Steven van Hecke, Wouter Wolfs and Toine Paulissen)

6. The political regime of the EU through the prism of the confirmation of the von der Leyen Commission by the European Parliament (Olivier Costa)

7. Dealing with fragmentation: The new political equilibrium and coalition dynamics in the European Parliament during the 9^th legislature (Nathalie Brack, Olivier Costa and Awenig Marié)

INSTITUTIONS

8. They are no different, they are much the same? Post-2019 inter-institutional dynamics in the European Union (Martin Westlake)

9. The Von Der Leyen Commission: An Early Assessment (Hussein Kassim)

10. A “geopolitical Commission”: reaching a point of inflexion? (Dimitri Lorenzani  Manuel Szapiro)

11. Balancing the unbalanced? An ongoing rivalry between European Parliament and European Council (Andrea Sabatini and Wolfgang Wessels)

12. The European Parliament’s practice in scrutinizing the Commission’s delegated acts before and after the 2019 EP elections (Sabina Lange and Michael Kaeding)

13. The empowerment of the General Secretariat of the Council: a growing challenge for rotating presidencies? (Oriane Gilloz)

14. The European Parliament under COVID-19: Institutional adaptation in times of pandemics (Ariadna Ripoll Servent  Alfredo de Feo)

POLICIES

15. The Evolution of Central Banking in Europe (Michele Chang, Laura Pierret  Gabriel Glöckler)

16. The EU budget and Recovery Plan: a chance for EU ambition? (Anne Vitrey  Frederik Mesdag)

17. “A Green European Wave?” Green Electoral Success and the European Green Deal (Ellen Vanderschueren, Franziska Petri & Katja Biedenkopf)

18. How Covid-19 Hit Brussels and Beyond: The EU’s Crisis Management Tested by a Pandemic (Steven Van Hecke, Toine Paulissen  Britt Vande Walle)

19. The evolution of enhanced cooperation in the EU: from EnCo to PeSCo (2009-2019) (Antonio Missiroli & Luigi Lonardo)

20. The End of Enlargement? The EU’s Struggle with the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership countries (Teona Lavrelashvili & Steven Van Hecke)

21. From the Gulf of Aden to the Mediterranean sea: The institutionalisation of EU-NATO maritime relations (Lorenzo Giuglietti) 

22. The EU’s embrace of geopolitics: Insights from the EU-China Relationship (Steven Langendonck & Edith Drieskens)

O autorze

Olivier Costa is Director of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe, Belgium, and Research Professor in Political Science and EU studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEVIPOF-Sciences Po, France. He is also Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration.

Steven Van Hecke is Assistant Professor in Comparative and EU Politics at the Public Governance Institute of the KU Leuven, Belgium, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany.

Blurb

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EU’s politics, institutions, and policies. Special attention is paid to the impact of these events on the different political forces as well as on the Union’s institutional balance, its priorities and the reform of its budget and policies. Because of the many post-electoral uncertainties, the book also takes into account how the relations between the Parliament, the European Council and the new Commission have developed. Furthermore, it analyses the capacity of the von der Leyen Commission to implement an ambitious programme, especially in the context of an unfolding pandemic. The objective of this book is to study the 2019 electoral sequence (parliamentary elections, appointment of EU institutions leaders, investiture of the Commission, new legislative programme) and determine its influence on the main institutional and political challenges for the 2019-2024 legislature. In other words, the volume deals with the question of who holds the EU’s leadership after the 2019 elections and how it handles the 2020-2021 pandemic.

Olivier Costa is Director of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe, Belgium, and Research Professor in Political Science and EU studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEVIPOF-Sciences Po, France. He is also Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration.

Steven Van Hecke is Assistant Professor in Comparative and EU Politics at the Public Governance Institute of the KU Leuven, Belgium, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany.