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The challenges that have been facing the European Union in recent
years have given rise to the question: who leads the EU? This book
offers a systematic analysis of political leadership in the EU.
This volume offers a theoretical and conceptual analysis of
political leadership in the EU. It deals with questions such as
what kind of leadership is there in the different domains (such as
climate change or central banking). It also examines how various EU
institutions (European Commission, European Parliament) exert or
have exerted leadership. Furthermore, it examines the role of the
presidents of some of these institutions, such as the European
Commission the European Council, the European Central Bank, but
also of selected national leaders. Although the book does not
advance a single leadership concept, the findings of the individual
case studies show that the EU is by no means leaderless. The
chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of
European Integration.
The challenges that have been facing the European Union in recent
years have given rise to the question: who leads the EU? This book
offers a systematic analysis of political leadership in the EU.
This volume offers a theoretical and conceptual analysis of
political leadership in the EU. It deals with questions such as
what kind of leadership is there in the different domains (such as
climate change or central banking). It also examines how various EU
institutions (European Commission, European Parliament) exert or
have exerted leadership. Furthermore, it examines the role of the
presidents of some of these institutions, such as the European
Commission the European Council, the European Central Bank, but
also of selected national leaders. Although the book does not
advance a single leadership concept, the findings of the individual
case studies show that the EU is by no means leaderless. The
chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of
European Integration.
The European Union affects the lives of Europeans in many and
varied ways, yet, in spite of its reach, it often appears a
constrained political system - struggling for internal consensus,
reliant on the agreement of national governments, and hampered by
the scepticism of electorates. These issues have become even more
acute in the wake of the global economic and eurozone crises. This
new text provides a concise and up-to-date introduction to the
nature of the European Union, giving an account of its evolution
and structure that makes sense of its current challenges. The text
analyses the EU's institutional structure and decision-making
procedures, and highlights the manifold conflicts as well as the
sophisticated mechanisms for consensus-building among the core
institutions. It explains the ways in which the EU differs from
other forms of political order, and how this leads to political
processes that are characterized by cooperation and conflict. In
providing this context, the author invites readers to a critical
assessment of the functioning of the European Union, and of the
implications of this for its democratic legitimacy and future
prospects.
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