Fixing the Refugee Crisis: Holding the Commission Accountable
Costello, Cathryn
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Guild, Elspeth
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2018
Verfassungsblog
2018-09-16
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In that 2015 State of the Union address, Juncker famously asserted that his Commission would be ‘very political’. ‘Political’ in Juncker’s words, meant facing up to challenges, not just ‘business as usual’. Rather, it was ‘time to speak frankly about the issues facing the European Union.’ In spite of this apparent rhetorical and institutional commitment, our central argument is that the Commission’s weakness during the refugee crisis meant it underperformed not only when measured against the aim of being more ‘political’ (in particular if this means correctly identifying and dealing with the sources of real political problems), but even if we envisage for it a more modest technocratic role.
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
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