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Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited
academic attention to date, despite their historical and
contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European
integration history, while frequently mentioning informal
processes, have as yet rarely conceptualised the study of
informality in European integration, and thus fail usually to
systematically analyse conditions, impact and consequences of
informal action. Including case studies that discuss both
successful and failed examples of informal action in European
integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both
early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to
fill this lacuna. The chapters of this volume offer a guide to the
study of informality and show how informality has impacted European
integration history and the functioning of the EC/EU as well as
other European organisations in a variety of ways. Reflecting the
diversity of studies within this burgeoning field of research,
within and across several academic disciplines, the book approaches
the informal dimensions of European integration from different
disciplinary, methodological and thematic angles. This book will be
of key interest to students and scholars of European integration,
EU politics/studies, European politics, European Union history, and
more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.
Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited
academic attention to date, despite their historical and
contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European
integration history, while frequently mentioning informal
processes, have as yet rarely conceptualised the study of
informality in European integration, and thus fail usually to
systematically analyse conditions, impact and consequences of
informal action. Including case studies that discuss both
successful and failed examples of informal action in European
integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both
early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to
fill this lacuna. The chapters of this volume offer a guide to the
study of informality and show how informality has impacted European
integration history and the functioning of the EC/EU as well as
other European organisations in a variety of ways. Reflecting the
diversity of studies within this burgeoning field of research,
within and across several academic disciplines, the book approaches
the informal dimensions of European integration from different
disciplinary, methodological and thematic angles. This book will be
of key interest to students and scholars of European integration,
EU politics/studies, European politics, European Union history, and
more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.
When EU member states signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, they did
not anticipate the manifold crises in store for them over the
following years. Instead of the intended consolidation of a Union
which had just gone through its most profound modernisation and
biggest round of enlargements, the EU has since then had to weather
a wide range of political, economic, social, legal, health and even
military crises with major repercussions within and beyond its own
territory. Indeed, this time of polycrisis has induced change on
many levels: Across the continent and its many fora of European
supra-, trans- and international collaboration, established
institutions, rule systems and normative frameworks have been put
into question and power balances have been shifting. Against this
background, actors from social, political, economic and cultural
life have sought new ways to overcome the manifold pressing
problems of their time, be it through intensified collaboration or
attempts to increasingly resolve issues at the national level.
This volume offers a compilation of case studies on EU crisis
responses, covering the most impactful of the various crises the EU
has had to face in recent years. It provides theoretical and
conceptual guidelines for the study of political actors’
responses to crisis at all levels of the EU multilevel governance
system and beyond.
The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European
Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at
first. Yet this book shows that the EP was much more influential in
shaping Community policy in the early years of the integration
process than either the founding Treaties or most existing
scholarship would allow. It studies the EP's institutional
evolution through the lens of Community social policy, a policy
area with a particularly strong ideational dimension. By promoting
a European social dimension, Members of the EP (MEPs) presented the
Parliament as the true representative of European citizens by
channelling their interests and needs. MEPs thus emphasised the
EP's role as a provider of democratic legitimacy for Community
politics, whilst at the same time trying to convince European
citizens that the Communities could have a real and positive impact
on their everyday lives.
The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European
Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at
first. Yet this book shows that the EP was much more influential in
shaping Community policy in the early years of the integration
process than either the founding Treaties or most existing
scholarship would allow. It studies the EP's institutional
evolution through the lens of Community social policy, a policy
area with a particularly strong ideational dimension. By promoting
a European social dimension, Members of the EP (MEPs) presented the
Parliament as the true representative of European citizens by
channelling their interests and needs. MEPs thus emphasised the
EP's role as a provider of democratic legitimacy for Community
politics, whilst at the same time trying to convince European
citizens that the Communities could have a real and positive impact
on their everyday lives.
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