The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of the EU Transboundary Crisis Management

Abstract

EU cooperation and decision-making is constantly challenged by, often unanticipated, disrupting events, such as the current immigration and economic crises . While the EU does to a certain extent have crisis management mechanisms in place, it often responds in a rather chaotic manner, lacking both effective solutions and democratic legitimacy. The key objectives of this panel are to address the problems of securing effective decisions in EU crisis management, while at the same obtaining legitimacy of the EU’s crisis response. The panel brings together researchers from the Horizon2020 TransCrisis programme to discuss their conceptual scheme, early data, and provisional findings. The four papers covers different transboundary crisis, but are unified in their focus on effectiveness and legitimacy in crisis management.