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From Consensus to Domination: Intergovernmentalism in a Crisis Situation

European Politics
European Union
Executives
Governance
Institutions
Euro
Sergio Fabbrini
LUISS University
Sergio Fabbrini
LUISS University

Abstract

The intergovernmental union emerged from the Maastricht Treaty, and thus institutionalized fully by the Lisbon Treaty, has been tested during the euro crisis. The logic of the intergovernmental union requires voluntary coordination between national governments in the new policy areas of the EU. However, under the impact of the dramatic financial crisis, the intergovernmental union has ended up in practicing hierarchical relations between national governments within the intergovernmental institutions. Consensus has thus been substituted by domination.