Taking Democracy Seriously in the Euro Area: Reinvigorating the European Parliament's Functions and Responsibilities

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Table of Contents: I. T-Dem or the democratic question put back at the heart of economic governance. – II. The European Parliament, rather than an assembly of the Euro area. – III. The ways of strengthening the powers of the European Parliament. – IV. Taking into account the interest of the Euro area as a whole. – V. From democratic frustration to...

Democratising the Eurozone: Some Lessons To Be Drawn from T-Dem

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Democratising the Eurozone, a creative thinking exercise. – II.1. De lege ferenda. – II.2. Working on concepts – II.3. Beyond national constitutional models – III. Democratising the Eurozone, a constrained exercise. – III.1. Democratisation by politicisation? – III.2. Democratising without...

The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Future of the European Foreign Policy

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Among the reactions to the decision of the US Presidency to withdraw from the Joint and Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – a conventional scheme agreed upon in 2015 by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the E3/EU+3 group, namely (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the High Representative of the European Union...

European Economic Governance in a Post-crisis Era – A Conceptual Appraisal

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction – EU economic policy from a governance perspective. – II. Characterizing economic coordination in the pre-crisis era. – II.1. The Treaty framework on economic policy. – II.2. Pre-crisis economic governance and the OMC. – III. Economic governance in the post-crisis era – Entering a new world? – III.1...

A Eurozone Congress

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Summit and Congress. – III. Ministers and Congress. – IV. Treaties and Congress. – V. To conclude.

Abstract: At a time when Europe’s political leaders are considering new reforms of the single currency, T-Dem’s plea for a Eurozone assembly should be...

The Cultural Open Method of Coordination: A New but Different OMC?

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The “promises” of the cultural OMC. – III. The birth of the cultural OMC. – IV. The operation and evolution of the cultural OMC. – V. Cultural policy coordination or cultural cooperation? – VI. The cultural OMC in the context of the EU cultural policy. – VII. Cultural coordination outside the cultural OMC...

The Place of the OMC in the System of EU Competences and Sources of Law

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Table of Contents: I. The place of the OMC in primary EU law. – II. The OMC and the principle of conferral. – III. Does the OMC produce soft law? – IV. Conclusion: Is the OMC part of the EU legal order?

Abstract: It is often said that the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a form of soft law and...

Organising Soft Governance in Hard Times – The Unlikely Survival of the Open Method of Coordination in EU Education Policy

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Theories of organisational change and survival. – II.1. Functional imperatives: organisational survival “on delivery”. – II.2. Power perspective: survival as political battle. – II.3. Institutionalisation and survival. – II.4. Institutional perspective – Survival by riding a fashion wave. – III. The OMC in...

The OMC Processes in the Health Care Field: What Does Coordination Really Mean?

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. General challenges for legal analysis of the Open Method of Coordination. – II.1. The OMC and the specificities of EU legal system. – II.2. A trend toward fewer OMC references.– III. The evolution of OMC in the European legal system: From light to shadow. – III.1. Recognition of a legal...

T-Dem Versus Economic Meta-policy: The Means and the Ends

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Table of contents: I. Introduction. – II. The diagnosis. – II.1. A sometimes contradictory diagnosis. – II.2. A partially convergent one. – II.2.1. The EMU as a “meta-policy”. – II.2.2. The normative power of the market. – III. The solutions. – III.1. Relevant solutions. – III.2. Insufficient solutions.

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