Lecture | The European Union at a Critical Juncture: policy trade-offs, accountability and Europeanization
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21.04.2025
Prof. Laura Polverari will deliver a UF Jean Monnet Chair Guest Lecture at the University of Florida on April 21, 2025 at 12:30 ET / 18:30 CET hosted by Jean Monnet (ad personam) Professor Amie Kreppel.
Laura Polverari’s talk will be about The European Union at a Critical Juncture: policy trade-offs, accountability and Europeanization.
The European Union has shown strength and determination in dealing with the pandemic crisis and previous crises, even experimenting during the pandemic with a new form of coordinative Europeanisation to act quickly in the face of emergencies. However, the current situation goes beyond crisis. Faced with an unclear but certain reorganisation of the world order, the EU seems unable to act as decisively as in previous crises, with the European Commission often overshadowed by member states and member states divided over future priorities. Much attention is now focused on the new multi-annual financial framework (2028-2034) and whether it will shift towards new, outward-looking priorities (e.g. defence) at the expense of more traditional, inward-looking ones (social and territorial cohesion). Against this background, the lecture will illustrate the new form of coordinative Europeanisation that emerged during the pandemic crisis and the state of the debate on the future EU budget, with a special focus on the EU's key investment policy (EU cohesion policy), in order to shed light on the currently unresolved policy trade-offs and their implications for accountability and the future of the EU as a political project.
The lecture will be in hybrid format and open to interested parties who can register and attend via Zoom.
