written by
Bojar, Abel ; Kriesi, Hanspeter
Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions: Covid and refugee crises compared – Comparative European Politics
20/06/2023
scritto da
Bojar, Abel ; Kriesi, Hanspeter

Abstract:

We study how crises situations shape the political decision-making structure of the EU and the responses adopted by European policy makers by comparing EU decision-making in the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis (March 2020-July 2020) and in the refugee crisis (2015 to 2019), based on a new data-set on policymaking. Similarities between the two crises include: comparable polarization and conflict intensity, executive dominance, a greater role of EU institutions in policy domains where the EU has higher competence, more conflict and greater resistance by coalitions of member states in domains where it has lower competence, and minority coalitions of critical member states have been crucial for possible solutions in both crises. The key difference between the two crises lies in the fact that, in the refugee crisis, the opposing coalition was able to prevent any kind of reform, while in the first wave of the Covid crisis, the opposition was more amenable to a joint solution in the crucial fiscal policy domain, where the conflict became most intense. We suggest that this key difference is ultimately rooted in the character of the original problem pressure and the different distribution of spatial incidence in the two crises.

To cite this article:

Bojar, A., Kriesi, H. Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions: Covid and refugee crises compared. Comp Eur Polit 21, 427–447 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-023-00349-1

#COVID crisis #Crisis decision-making #European policymaking #Executive dominance #Policy coalitions #refugee crisis
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This project is funded with a Synergy Grant by the European Research Council under Grant Agreement n. 810356. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.