ABSTRACT A seemingly continuous stream of crises in Europe has turned scholarly
agendas towards assessment of the EU's management of crises. Those assessments vary …

The paper summarises a collaborative international research project comparing the impact
of the ongoing conglomerate of crises in nine EU policies. All of them saw significant crisis …

Previous studies have applied theories of European integration to interpret crisis-led
policymaking processes and integration outcomes in the EU. However, there has been little …

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to the European Union (EU)
and its member states. In the EU, health policy competence has been and remains largely …

This article examines the policy responses of the European Union (EU) and the United
States (US) to the Covid-19 pandemic during its first twelve months. The intensity of the …

According to a widely held view, the European Council decides how the EU should respond
in times of crisis, since the European Council alone has the authority to lead. Other …

The pandemic crisis constitutes an unprecedented challenge for the European Union and
for the Euro Area. Indeed, the European institutional architecture can be viewed as being …

Like many Western European countries, Belgium and the Netherlands have been strongly
hit by COVID-19. Almost simultaneously, the virus spread, caused a relatively high number …

The interest in the European Union as a crisis manager has grown intensely during the last
years. Large-scale accidents–floods, forest fires and terrorist attacks–do not recognise …

As with previous crises, the European Union's (EU) reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic has
again highlighted the European Council's pivotal role in the EU's institutional architecture …