Governance Challenges: Populism, Rule of Law, and Corruption

Abstract

This panel addresses critical governance challenges facing the EU in an era of rapid change, particularly concerning populist obstructionism, compliance enforcement, and anti-corruption efforts. Papers examine strategic responses by mainstream governments to counter populist obstructions in EU decision-making, analyze the puzzling decline in Commission infringement cases despite rising Euroscepticism, investigate corruption patterns in state-owned enterprises, explore how geopolitical developments have influenced the EU's anti-corruption agenda, and examine how the EU conceptualizes and copes with temporal disruption and institutional adaptation in a changing world.

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Handling the Bullies: Mainstream Strategies of Countering Populist Obstructions in the European Council and the Council	View Paper Details
Patterns of Declining Infringements in the European Union: A Time-Differencing Qualitative Comparative Analysis	View Paper Details
How to Curb Corruption in State-Owned Enterprises: Comparative Insights from Hungary, Poland, and Spain	View Paper Details
Geopolitical Turn in the EU’s Fight Against Corruption: Explaining Narrative Shifts and Coalition Formations	View Paper Details
These Times are Different: The EU’s Temporal Coping with a Changing World	View Paper Details