The Economic Dialogues with the Eurogroup: Substantive Accountability Claimed, but Unmet
- As the most powerful executive actor in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the Eurogroup has faced continuous demands to improve its accountability record since the euro crisis. One reform introduced to meet these demands were the Economic Dialogue – a regular exchange of views between the European Parliament and the President of the Eurogroup designed to ‘ensure greater transparency and accountability’ in the EMU. This chapter investigates the practical functioning of the Economic Dialogues with the Eurogroup between 2013 and the 2019 European Parliament elections. Applying the theoretical framework of the introduction, the purpose is to examine the extent to which the Parliament focuses on procedural or substantive accountability when questioning the Eurogroup President. Moreover, the chapter investigates the reasoning of parliamentary questions in line with the four accountability goods identified at the outset (openness, non-arbitrariness, effectiveness, and publicness). The findings show that Members of the European Parliament are eager to question the extent to which Eurogroup decisions are substantively open and effective, and to a lesser extent whether they are arbitrary or protect EU interests more generally. The analysis is based on fourteen transcripts of Economic Dialogues with the Eurogroup President, which took place between 2013 and 2019.
MetadatenDocument Type: | Part of a Book |
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Language: | English |
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Author(s): | Adina Akbik |
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Editor(s): | Mark Dawson |
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Parent Title (English): | Substantive Accountability in Europe’s New Economic Governance |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
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Place of Publisher: | Cambridge |
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Publication year: | 2023 |
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Publishing Institution: | Hertie School |
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First Page: | 154 |
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Last Page: | 176 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009228800.010 |
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Release Date: | 2023/12/01 |
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Tag: | Accountability; Eurogroup; European Parliament; Council of the EU; Economic Dialogue; European Semester; ESM |
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Hertie School Research: | Jacques Delors Centre |
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Licence of document (German): | Metadaten / metadata |
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