CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Bojovic, Jakov |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of the Commission in the New Economic Governance of the European Union |
| Summary | The new framework of the European economic governance, the European Semester, was enacted in 2010 as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy. Undoubtedly, the reform expanded the tasks of the European Commission in monitoring the economic governance of the Member States. This thesis aims to analyse whether this reform has politicized this international bureaucracy. Furthermore, to provide a comprehensive overview of its roles in the sphere of economic policy coordination, this thesis fits the argument about the politicization in the broader picture of the Commission’s ability to act as a policy entrepreneur. Hence, the Commission’s readiness to advocate for integrationist solutions is analyzed as well, in the reforms of the new economic governance of the European Union. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods are used to find that the Commission acted as an apolitical and technocratic institution, well controlled by the European Council, in the reforms as well as the workings of the new economic governance of the EU. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/bojovic_jakov.pdf |
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