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  • 2 - Analysing the EU

  • from Part I - Setting the Scene: Origins, Analytical Perspectives and Institutions
  • Herman Lelieveldt, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Sebastiaan Princen, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    The Politics of the European Union
    Published online:
    30 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 April 2023, pp 28-45

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the different analytical perspectives that can be used to study the EU. It first discusses three different integration theories (neo-functionalism, intergovernmentalism and postfunctionalism) and their spin-offs. These theories seek to explain why and how countries have decided to establish European cooperation and what role key actors (governments, interest groups, the public, politicians and civil servants) play in this. The chapter subsequently outlines theories of EU politics which seek to explain the actual functioning of the EU. In doing so it places a strong emphasis on the comparative politics approach, where the functioning of the EU is analysed by employing theories and concepts that are used in analysing domestic political systems. Additionally the chapter also discusses multi-level governance and federalism as two additional ways to understand EU politics. These theories provide complimentary insights in to the EU’s functioning. The choice to employ a certain theoretical perspective depends upon the types of questions asked and the actors that are of interest.

  • The European Fiscal Board: supranational de novo body or orchestrator?

  • Tobias Tesche
  • Journal:
    Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / November 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 April 2021, pp. 389-403
    Print publication:
    November 2021
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  • The European Fiscal Board (EFB) is a supranational fiscal council advising the European Commission on the European Union (EU) fiscal framework. It was created as a response to the EU member states' repeated non-compliance with the EU fiscal rules and the emergence of national fiscal councils. Non-compliance with EU fiscal rules was often left unpunished and required a new expert body to regain some of the lost credibility of the EU's fiscal framework through enhanced fiscal monitoring. This article argues that the European Commission created the EFB in response to the new intergovernmental dynamics. A supranational fiscal watchdog that depends on the Commission for financial resources and access to information would deflect member states from delegating more competences away from the Commission. Thus, the Commission was able to counter a potential threat to its authority in EU fiscal governance by creating a supranational de novo body that it controlled.

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