Changing Topography of EU Administration

Didier Georgakakis is Professor of Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France and the College of Europe, Belgium.

• Introduction.- Part I: Institutions.- 1 The European Union and the limits of supranational administrative governance: from the Eurozone crisis to the response to coronavirus.- 2 European administration challenged by philosophy (and vice versa).- 3 The workings of the Council of the EU and the European Council.- 4 The administrative empowerment of the European Parliament.- 5 The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union: between long-term political transformations and neo-managerial reforms.- 6 The Secretariat general of the European Commission under the mandate of Jean-Claude Juncker: an instrument for the presidentialisation of the institution.- 7 The ECB between institutional independence and concentration of power: a perspective on the administration and its evolution.- Part II: Actors.- 8 Determining and conducting France’s European policy: a model of symbiosis of presidential and administrative power.- 9 “Porous” bureaucracies? External interactions and their influence on governance preferences in the European Commission and the Council Secretariat.- 10 Who leads the administrations of the Institutional Triangle and the agencies.- 11 Looking at Europe from the European Court of Auditors.- 12 Mapping the ECB staff recruitment process in times of crisis.- 13 The General Secretariat of the Council’s staff in the context of new public management reforms: between desingularisation and dedifferentiation.- Part III: Policy Processes.- 14 The European Union at the test of economic crisis: how has the EU budget 2021-2027 adapted.- 15 The Juncker years: economic and social legacy of the 2014-2019 European Commission.- 16 Is there a pilot in crisis management? Expectations and issues of coherence in European international interventions.- 17 Transparency in the field of Eurocracy: a political tool serving bureaucracy.- 18 The European Ombudsman: institutionalisation and new investigation instruments assessed by an enquiry into the European Medicines Agency.- 19 The annual activity report and the programming cycle: the EU’s administrative transformations through the lens of Kinnock reform instruments.- 20 Inventing new tools: The European vaccine strategy in the Covid-19 pandemic.- 21 Conclusion.