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The ‘European Semester’, a new framework for policy co-ordination across European Union (EU) member states, represents a major step in EU governance. Created in 2010 in the wake of the financial and sovereign debt crises and revamped in 2015, it was intended to provide a new socioeconomic governance architecture to co-ordinate national policies without transferring full sovereignty to the EU level.
Articles:
+ Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice Amy Verdun & Jonathan Zeitlin
+ Socializing the European Semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond Jonathan Zeitlin & Bart Vanhercke
+ Flexicurity in the European Semester: still a relevant policy concept? Sonja Bekker
+ Deciding on the European Semester: the European Council, the Council and the enduring asymmetry between economic and social policy issues Adina Maricut & Uwe Puetter
+ Enforcing the European Semester: the politics of asymmetric information in the excessive deficit and macroeconomic imbalance procedures James D. Savage & David Howarth
+ Cherry-picking external constraints: Latvia and EU economic governance, 2008-2014 Edgars Eihmanis
+ Explaining the evolving role of national parliaments under the European Semester Mark Hallerberg, Benedicta Marzinotto & Guntram B. Wolff
+ Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance: what role for parliaments in post-crisis EU economic governance? Ben Crum
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