Full Description
The Netherlands is once again at the helm of the EU in the spring of 2016. This volume brings together contributions on topics related to the Dutch Presidency Agenda 2016 from a number of scholars who are affiliated with Leiden University. Each of the authors reflects on elements and developments in EU law and policy that will be important to the EU agenda in the coming months from their own background or perspective. The volume offers unique contemporary, academic, and interdisciplinary insights on the functioning of the EU for national and European policy- and decision-makers.
Contents
List of Contributors; Foreword; 1 Introduction - The Dutch PresidencyCoping with a Union in Flux; Part I EU Institutions and Regulation; 2 Taking Decisions or Setting Norms? - EU Presidencies between Executive and Legislative Power in a Crisis-Driven Union; 3 The Transnational Mediatization of the European Council - An Emergent Venue for Agenda Setting?; 4 Commission Guidance as Informal Implementation Tool: Fit for the Future?; 5 Beating about the Bush in 'Better Regulation'; 6 Regulation, Implementation, and European Integration - Analyzing the Evolving Institutional Framework for Enforcing EU Law; 7 Connecting Different 'Worlds' - The Implementation of European Policy in a Multilevel Context; Part II EU Policies and the Member States; 8 Of Carrots and Sticks - What Direction to Take for Economic and Monetary Union?; 9 It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To - 'Celebrating' Thirty Years of Schengen; 10 The Free Movement of Workers under Discussion within the Social Council; 11 Promoting the Dutch Experience in the EU - The Case of the Proposed Anti-Discrimination Directive; 12 EUCooperation and Coordination of Enforcement within the Fields of Occupational Safety and Food Safety; 13 The Europeanization of the Dutch Senior Civil Service 2007- 2013; Part III The EU in the World; 14 The European Union as a Geopolitical Player; 15 Enlargement as Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans: Has It Reached Its Limits?
