The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis

Sternberg, Claudia; Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Kira; Nicolaïdis, Kalypso

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“…For sure, Schäuble's intransigent position did enjoy wide support among the German public and the same is true for representatives of the Netherlands, Finland or Austria. Rather than facilitating mutual understanding and joint solutions, the political escalation accompanying the referendum antagonized the different European demoi, especially the German and the Greek peoples (Sternberg, Gartzou-Katsouyanni, and Nicolaidis 2018). The featuring of Angela Merkel as a Nazi in the Greek public sphere and the dubbing of Greeks as liars and traitors in the German press are just shocking signs of the dangerous antagonizing spiral sparkled by the confrontation.…”

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In the name of ‘the people’? Popular Sovereignty and the 2015 Greek referendum

Crespy

Ladi

2019

Journal of European Integration

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This article explores the rise of new conflicts of sovereignty especially with regard to popular sovereignty in the EU polity. It asks whether referenda in the national realm are effective tools to enhance popular sovereignty at supranational level. To elucidate this question, we distinguish between embedded and unilateral referenda. Empirically, the paper focuses on the referendum called by the Greek government on the proposed Memorandum of Understanding in 2015. While ambiguous from the outset, the referendum turned out to be of an embedded nature and failed to enhance popular sovereignty. Based on elite interviews and analysis of the discussion in the media, our analysis shows that the referendum was envisaged by the Greek government instrumentally to put pressure on the other negotiating parties and tackle internal party disagreements. This turned out to be a selfdefeating strategy ignoring the popular mandate and failing to improve the conditions for financial assistance.

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In the name of ‘the people’? Popular Sovereignty and the 2015 Greek referendum

Crespy

Ladi

2019

Journal of European Integration

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“…In mapping the different stories, I have followed the qualitative approach of recent narrative research. More precisely, I have conducted a document analysis and subjected sources such as newspaper columns, interviews, blog entries, and political pamphlets to an interpretation (see Manners and Murray 2016; Sternberg et al 2018).…”

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Challenging the masters of the treaties: Emerging narratives of constituent power in the European Union

Patberg¹

2018

Glob. Con.

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Abstract:There is a growing sense that if the EU is to avoid disintegration, it needs a constitutional renewal. However, a reform negotiated between executives will hardly revitalise the European project. In light of this, commentators have suggested that the EU needs a democratic refounding on popular initiative. But that is easier said than done. Shaping the EU has been an elite enterprise for decades and it is hard to imagine how things could be otherwise. In this article, I map four public narratives of constituent power in the EU to sketch out potential alternatives. Political actors increasingly call into question the conventional role of the states as the ‘masters of the treaties’ and construct alternative stories as to who should be in charge of EU constitutional politics, how the respective subject came to find itself in that position, and how it should invoke its founding authority in the future. These public narratives represent a promising starting point for a normative theory that outlines a viable and justifiable path for transforming the EU in a bottom-up mode.

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“…In other words, the normative bias of demoicratic scholarship is to shift the spotlight on the imperative of democratic accountability from the vertical focus on internal accountability of liberal theories to a horizontal accountability among demoi, thus bringing transnationalism all the way down. As leaders balance their respective democratic mandates, publics must demand cognitive tools for managing their common demoicratic citizenship (Sternberg et al, 2017). Europe has reached a stage where what also matters is what we could call democratic interdependence, namely the ways in which democratic processes in different countries affect each other.…”

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“…In the end, and from a demoicratic viewpoint, EU leaders need to ask 'what is the minimum integration necessary' to sustain a common currency among national economies which will remain heterogeneous for the foreseeable future (Begg et al, 2015). EMU must contend with the tension between political ownership and interdependence by prioritizing democratically sustainable reform in separate constituencies who nevertheless must recover the promise of mutual recognition between peoples (Sternberg et al, 2017). The more the EU intrudes on sovereigntysensitive areas of core powers, the more member states must deepen their national democratic processes and institutions.…”

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“…Europe has reached a stage where what also matters is what we could call democratic interdependence, namely the ways in which democratic processes in different countries affect each other. As leaders balance their respective democratic mandates, publics must demand cognitive tools for managing their common demoicratic citizenship (Sternberg et al, 2017).…”

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Braving the Waves? Europe's Constitutional Settlement at Twenty

Nicolaïdis

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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This article reflects on the diagnosis proposed in 1998 by Moravcsik and Nicolaidis that the EU had reached an incipient constitutional settlement and makes two connected arguments. First, analytically, that contrary to the prevailing view, the EU's constitutional settlement is holding, although it has come under assault from federalists and sovereignists alike. The bicycle theory nevertheless continues to hold sway perhaps because paradigm shifts always exhibit significant lags. Second, normatively, to defend ‘the equilibrium’ does not amount to a defense of the status quo. On the contrary, and especially in the context of the eurozone crisis, we must reflect on the social foundations of the European project, of which intermittent democratic discontent is only one expression. The argument unfolds through four European cities, each regarding a different moment in the Constitutional saga of the last two decades, to conclude on the relationship between LI and demoicratic theory, as well as the promise of sustainable integration.

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The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis

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In the name of ‘the people’? Popular Sovereignty and the 2015 Greek referendum

In the name of ‘the people’? Popular Sovereignty and the 2015 Greek referendum

Challenging the masters of the treaties: Emerging narratives of constituent power in the European Union

Braving the Waves? Europe's Constitutional Settlement at Twenty

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