What’s new? A first appraisal of the Juncker Commission

Kassim, Hussein ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-8377 (2017) What’s new? A first appraisal of the Juncker Commission. European Political Science, 16 (1). 14–33. ISSN 1680-4333

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Abstract

Although still in its early phases, the Juncker Commission has already broken new ground. Not only is Jean-Claude Juncker the first Commission President to be selected by the Spitzenkandidaten process, an extra-constitutional system that has reconfigured the European Union’s institutional balance, but he has transformed the structure and operation of the College in order to create a more political, and therefore more effective, Commission, and made good – so far – on his promise ‘to do better on the bigger things and be small on the small things’. This article examines this three-fold transformation. It looks at the innovations and change associated with the Juncker Commission. It considers what motivated them and how they were achieved, sets them in historical perspective, and discusses their implications for the institutions and for the EU more broadly.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2016 11:00
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 23:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58162
DOI:	10.1057/eps.2015.116

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