Including specially commissioned articles and produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2019.
- Written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issues
- Includes Thomas Christiansen’s Annual Lecture on the ability of the European institutional architecture to adapt in face of repeated crises
- Other articles cover the appointment of the first woman president the European Commission, the complex relationship between media coverage and citizens’ engagement with the EU, citizens’ rights vis-à-vis the ongoing process of Brexit, the impact of national elections (especially Italy and France) on EU politics, and the 2019 European Parliament elections in key member state
- Also an opportunity to reflect on the ten years since the Greek Crisis, the impact of austerity politics on the rise of anti-EU sentiments, the future of the European Neighbourhood Policy and finally the EU’s role as a climate change actor
- The Annual Review is the most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for practitioners, scholars, students and researchers of European integration as well as for general readers who simply want to know more about the European Union and have a pluralism of voices
Table of Contents
1. Calm before the Storm? 2019 in Perspective (Theofanis Exadaktylos, Roberta Guerrina, and Emanuele Massetti)
2. The EU’s New Normal: Consolidating European Integration in an Era of Populism and Geo-Economics (Thomas Christiansen)
3. The 2019 Elections to the European Parliament: The Continuation of a Populist Wave but Not a Populist Tsunami (Daniel Stockemer and Abdelkarim Amengay)
4. Green Versus Radical Right as the New Political Divide? The European Parliament Election 2019 in Germany (Carl C. Berning and Conrad Ziller)
5. Macron versus the RN? The Battle Lines of French Politics Following the 2019 European Elections (Gabriel Goodliffe)
6. Italy and the European Elections of 2019 (Erik Jones and Matthias Matthijs)
7. Brexit and the 2019 EP Election in the UK (Sofia Vasilopoulou)
8. Media Personalization during European Elections: the 2019 Election Campaigns in Context (Katjana Gattermann)
9. Democratic Erosion? One Dominant Party and Ineffective Opposition (Magdalena Solska)
10. Great Expectations, Structural Limitations: Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission’s New Equality Agenda (Gabriele Abels and Joyce M. Mushaben)
11. The EU’s Socioeconomic Governance 10 Years after the Crisis: Muddling through and the Revolt against Austerity (Amandine Crespy)
12. The Impact of Brexit on Black Women, Children and Citizenship (Iyola Solanke)
13. A Decade of Crisis in the European Union: Lessons from Greece (Alexia Katsanidou and Zoe Lefkofridi)
14. Mainstreaming Gender and Climate Change to Achieve a Just Transition to a Climate‐Neutral Europe (Gill Allwood)
15. The EU and its Neighbourhood: The Politics of Muddling Through (Tobias Schumacher)
16. EU snapshots: 2019 a blurred view of the horizon (Nikolaos Gkotsis Papaioannou)
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