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JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 1018-1036Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1619189
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Politicization; European Union; Council; Commission; populism; Eurozone crisis
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The EU has become increasingly politicized not only at the bottom, due to polarized debates, divided electorates, declining mainstream parties, and rising Euroskeptic populism; or from the bottom up, as national politics permeates member-state leaders' positions in the Council. It has also emerged purely at the top, in the increasingly politically charged dynamics of interaction within and among EU actors. Such politicization involves struggles for power and influence that are ideational as much as institutional and coercive. Current theorists of EU integration, because of their tendency to focus on only one or another EU actor have overlooked the EU's politicized dynamics, even though their accounts, taken together, provide ample evidence of it. The article shows that the EU has gone from what was once metaphorically described with the catchphrase of 'politics without policy' at the national level to 'politics against policy' in more contentious areas, whereas at the EU level it has moved from 'policy without politics' to 'politics with policy'. The paper illustrates with the cases of the Council and the Commission in the Eurozone crisis.
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