Europeanisation and European Peripheries

Abstract

There is by now a rich literature on many aspects of the consequences of European integration for member states of the European Union. Much of the emphasis has been on explaining cross-national variation in engagement with the processes. There is, in particular, a well-developed research literature that seeks to account for differential patterns of compliance with and implementation of policies emanating from the central decision-making institutions. But much of the focus tends to be on institutional sources of national variation. What has received less attention is the possibility that there may be more deeply patterned imbalances in the reception of and responses to various European acquis that is rooted in the diversity of European political economy. The global financial crisis has exposed with unprecedented clarity the existence of fault-lines within the Eurozone, which the creation of European Monetary Union was supposed to erode and heal. Moreover, the reach of European governance has been extended to the countries of East-Central Europe, with their very different experiences of market-making and policy implementation compared with western Europe, and considerable variation between these countries themselves. We therefore have a very interesting natural experiment in varieties of ‘periphery’ within the European Union. The purpose of this panel is to examine the implications of European integration for countries of the periphery of the European Union.

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