VL IB: European Policy Making

Analyzing European Governance

How can HI be applied to the Study of the EU?

  • Most convincingly / prominently applied to social and monetary policy
  • Economic and Monetary Union:
    • Governments went for short-term success (= not insisting on Maastricht criteria)
    • Spillover effects from the common market
    • Commission pushing for EMU
    • Current generation of politicians bound by decisions of the previous

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