European integration and the crisis: practice and theory

Crisis, learning and policy change in the European Union

“…The debate on the nature of the Eurozone crisis is still open, especially among integration theorists (Tosun et al 2014;Ioannou et al 2015). For Lefkofridi and Schmitter (2014) this phase of integration is not a 'good' cathartic crisis.…”

Domestic preferences and European banking supervision: Germany, Italy and the Single Supervisory Mechanism

“…The crisis in the eurozone has revived interest in theories of European integration and, in particular, on how integration can help explain the events of the past five years; policymakers' reactions to these events; and how integrated institutions can better overcome challenges going forward (see, for instance, the contributions collected in Ioannou et al 2015). Our study is neither meant to adjudicate the explanatory power of competing accounts nor to address the wider study of what explains EU integration more generally.…”

The Six-Pack as a Test for the New Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism Theories

“…While some authors have been focusing on the supranational/intergovernmental complementarities (Schout and Wolff 2012), others have been analyzing the paradox of integration without supranationalisation (Bickerton et al 2015;Fabbrini and Puetter 2016). While Ioannou et al (2015) cover different theoretical approaches to the crisis, the new intergovernmentalism approaches can be found in Fabbrini (2016), Puetter (2016), and Thaler (2016), whereas the new supranationalism can be found in Bauer and Becker (2014) and Dehousse (2016). Finally, an empirical case on the SixPack has been analysed by Bressanelli and Chelotti (2016).…”