Ruffert, Matthias --- "European integration in a crisis scenario: easy steps to revitalise the EU as a subject and to avoid disintegration?" [2017] ELECD 936; in Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine (eds), "Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 265

Book Title: Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law

Editor(s): Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435736

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: European integration in a crisis scenario: easy steps to revitalise the EU as a subject and to avoid disintegration?

Author(s): Ruffert, Matthias

Number of pages: 10

Abstract/Description:

The current crisis of European integration is far more intensive than former difficult situations. Overcoming it is by no means easy, as it is largely perceived as an underperformance in policy output. Some relatively easy steps could, however, be taken at the institutional level (legislative and executive): Modification of the electoral law of the European Parliament, overcoming the ‘Union method’ and streamlining the administrative organisation of Commission and agencies. Keywords: European integration, electoral law of the European Parliament