Del i serien New Horizons in European Politics series

Beyond ‘Ever Closer Union’

The Juncker Commission’s Ambition in Migration and Economic Policy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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With novel insights into the ambitions and objectives behind President Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission, this innovative book elucidates how the Commission has transcended the concept of ‘ever closer union’ in its attempts to adopt a future-proof EU reform agenda in the highly contested fields of migration and economic policy.Focusing on migration and economic governance policies, the book analyses policy-maker interviews, Commission publications, and policy negotiation processes. It finds the Juncker Commission to be highly ambitious and political, in contrast to its more technocratic predecessors. In place of a self-empowering supranational agenda, it argues that the Commission has adopted a reform agenda, seeking to empower new EU bodies and actively build policy coalitions. Given that this shift in ambition was driven by external contexts, the book predicts that future Commissions will follow a similar path, providing insights into how this may be balanced with Member State ambition. With novel empirical analyses and original contributions to debates on new intergovernmentalism, new supranationalism, and liberal intergovernmentalism, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of European politics, EU integration, international relations, political economy, and governance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-22
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in European Politics series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035313228

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‘Bojović’s volume, in conclusion, is a methodologically rigorous, interesting and innovative study on an important issue, which makes a significant contribution to the comprehension of the European Union decision making and the European integration process as a whole. It throws new light, in particular, on the ever-chang-ing nature, role and objectives of the most “European” of the EU institutions, showing the importance of the Juncker Commission in the historical evolution of the executive of the European Union. In so doing, the volume also offers an original reading of the history and recent developments of two of the EU’s most strategic and challenging policy areas, which touch upon the essence of state sovereignty and cover highly politicised issues. The book, too, has the merit of creating a theoretical scheme that can be applied to any Commission and the potential of opening new venues of research. These include the motivations behind the Commission’s ambitions; the Commission’s internal dynamics; the interplay of Commission’s, European Council’s, Council of Ministers’, European Parliament’s and lobbies’ ambitions; the role played by the Commission’s ambition in all EU policy areas.’