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The EU Political System After the 2019 European Elections

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Editors:
  1. Olivier Costa

    1. CEVIPOF-Sciences Po, CNRS, Paris, France

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  2. Steven Van Hecke

    1. Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  • Assesses the impact of the recent events on EU’s political forces, interinstitutional balance and main policies
  • Looks at the way the EU has handled the 2020-2021 Covid-19 pandemic
  • Answers an important question for the EU: who holds its leadership?

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction—Assessing the EU’s Double Challenge

    • Olivier Costa, Steven Van Hecke
    Pages 1-19

  3. Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. EU Citizen Participation ‘in the Union’s Democratic Life’: A Policy and Legal Analysis

      • Alberto Alemanno
      Pages 23-44

    3. Higher Turnout at the Expense of Representativeness? The 2019 European Elections Against the Backdrop of a Socio-Economically Biased Voter Turnout

      • Michael Kaeding, Stefan Haußner
      Pages 45-62

    4. Unpacking Legislative Turnover in the 2019 European Parliament Elections

      • Isabelle De Coninck
      Pages 63-82

    5. The Life and Death of the Spitzenkandidaten: What Role is Left for European Political Parties?

      • Steven Van Hecke, Wouter Wolfs, Toine Paulissen
      Pages 83-99

    6. The Political Regime of the EU Through the Prism of the Confirmation of the von der Leyen Commission by the European Parliament

      • Olivier Costa
      Pages 101-120

    7. Dealing with Fragmentation: The New Political Equilibrium and Coalition Dynamics in the European Parliament During the 9th Legislature

      • Nathalie Brack, Olivier Costa, Awenig Marié
      Pages 121-148

  4. Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. ‘They Are No Different, They Are Much the Same…?’ Post-2019 Inter-Institutional Dynamics in the European Union

      • Martin Westlake
      Pages 151-168

    3. The von der Leyen Commission: An Early Assessment

      • Hussein Kassim
      Pages 169-193

    4. A “Geopolitical Commission”: Reaching a Point of Inflexion?

      • Dimitri Lorenzani, Manuel Szapiro
      Pages 195-214

    5. Balancing the Unbalanced? An Ongoing Rivalry Between European Parliament and European Council

      • Andrea Sabatini, Wolfgang Wessels
      Pages 215-238

    6. The European Parliament’s Practice in Scrutinizing the Commission’s Delegated Acts Before and After the 2019 EP Elections

      • Sabina Lange, Michael Kaeding
      Pages 239-259

    7. The Empowerment of the General Secretariat of the Council: A Growing Challenge for Rotating Presidencies?

      • Oriane Gilloz
      Pages 261-284

    8. The European Parliament Under COVID-19: Institutional Adaptation in Times of Pandemics

      • Ariadna Ripoll Servent, Alfredo De Feo
      Pages 285-305

  5. Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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    2. Fighting Fires from Crisis to Crisis: The Evolution of Central Banking in Europe

      • Michele Chang, Gabriel Glöckler, Laura Pierret
      Pages 309-334

    3. The EU Budget and Recovery Plan: A Chance for EU Ambition?

      • Anne Vitrey, Frederik Mesdag
      Pages 335-360
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About this book

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EU’s politics, institutions, and policies. Special attention is paid to the impact of these events on the different political forces as well as on the Union’s institutional balance, its priorities and the reform of its budget and policies. Because of the many post-electoral uncertainties, the book also takes into account how the relations between the Parliament, the European Council and the new Commission have developed. Furthermore, it analyses the capacity of the von der Leyen Commission to implement an ambitious programme, especially in the context of an unfolding pandemic. The objective of this book is to study the 2019 electoral sequence (parliamentary elections, appointment of EU institutions leaders, investiture of the Commission, new legislative programme) and determine its influence on the main institutional and political challenges for the 2019-2024 legislature. In other words, the volume deals with the question of who holds the EU’s leadership after the 2019 elections and how it handles the 2020-2021 pandemic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CEVIPOF-Sciences Po, CNRS, Paris, France

    Olivier Costa

  • Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Steven Van Hecke

About the editors

Olivier Costa is Director of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe, Belgium, and Research Professor in Political Science and EU studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEVIPOF-Sciences Po, France. He is also Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration.

Steven Van Hecke is Assistant Professor in Comparative and EU Politics at the Public Governance Institute of the KU Leuven, Belgium, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany.



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