Wednesday, June 26, 2013
4.04 (PC Hoofthuis)
As presented By Heipertz and Verdun (2010), the development of EMU can be studied using different analytical concepts. This paper will present a public management approach to analyze and diagnose the innovations introduced in the EU semester. This approach helps to focus on the day-to-day processes in the writing of the reports on the economic and financial conditions in the member states. Have the administrative
processes in the member states and in the EU Commission changed? If the EMU rules have changed (6-pack, etc.) than we also expect changes in the way the reports are written and approved. For example, what does it mean that Olli Rehn is 'independent' Commissioner, how does that change the position of DG ECfin and of the SecGen in the Commission? Similarly, are the networks (EPC, EFC) now operating differently than before? Institutions are sticky (and organisations are institutions, see Hussein and
Le Gallès 2010), so how optimistic can we be to expect actual changes on the ground? Political scientists see the EU semester essentially as a political struggle; this paper raises the question what insights public administration might offer to our understanding of the eurocrisis.
processes in the member states and in the EU Commission changed? If the EMU rules have changed (6-pack, etc.) than we also expect changes in the way the reports are written and approved. For example, what does it mean that Olli Rehn is 'independent' Commissioner, how does that change the position of DG ECfin and of the SecGen in the Commission? Similarly, are the networks (EPC, EFC) now operating differently than before? Institutions are sticky (and organisations are institutions, see Hussein and
Le Gallès 2010), so how optimistic can we be to expect actual changes on the ground? Political scientists see the EU semester essentially as a political struggle; this paper raises the question what insights public administration might offer to our understanding of the eurocrisis.
