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In person icon Increasing the EU's capacity to act: Discussing the institutional and governance dimension

Constitutions
European Union
Governance
P082
Thomas Christiansen
LUISS University
Funda Tekin
Universität Tübingen

In person icon Building: Colégio Almada Negreiros, Floor: 2, Room: A224

Thursday 14:00 - 15:30 WEST (20/06/2024)

Abstract

Throughout more than a decade of consecutive crises the EU has been able to find solutions on the basis of its constitutional foundations. At the same time, however, the rule of law as one of the EU’s constitutional principals has come under attack in some EU member states and common decision-making has become increasingly difficult. The EU’s capacity to act both in institutional and governance terms is a prominent topic in academic as well as political debates. The geopolitically driven revitalization of the EU’s enlargement policy and hence the perspective of an EU with more than 30 member states only adds to this. This panel aims to analyse and assess how the EU can increase its capacity to act. Individual papers test models of institutional reforms that are meant to render economic governance more efficient and democratic, address the implications of the shift from economic to political conditionality for the EU’s internal governance capacity and discuss how the European Council frames the balance between deepening and widening as well as conceptualise an analytical frame for reforming the EU’s enlargement policy to enhance Europe’s resilience.

Title Details
Shifts in the EU’s internal governance capacity: From economic to political conditionality View Paper Details
The European Council as the Mother of EU Enlargement: navigating widening and deepening beyond the formal Treaty rules View Paper Details
Institutional Reform in the European Union: Economic Governance and the Introduction of a European Assembly View Paper Details
Conceptual frame for invigorating the EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policy to enhance Europe's resilience View Paper Details