Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis

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• dc.contributor.author Ferrera, Maurizio
• dc.contributor.author Miró, Joan
• dc.contributor.author Ronchi, Stefano
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-22T06:18:31Z
• dc.date.available 2024-04-22T06:18:31Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
• dc.description.abstract This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the negative experiences of past crises, some EU leaders engaged in a strategy of ‘polity maintenance’, i.e. keeping the EU polity together, regardless of interest-based divisions. This strategy mainly rested on public communication. The article documents both conflict and appeasement by analysing a corpus of leaders’ quotes drawn from the press (covering eight countries) and a corpus of speeches by Angela Merkel. The Chancellor made a high political investment in EU polity maintenance, presenting European cohesion as part and parcel of Germany’s national interest.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the European Research Council under the Synergy Grant number 810356 (ERC_SYG_2018), in the scope of the project SOLID – Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics, Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU post 2008.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ferrera M, Miró J, Ronchi S. Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis. West European Politics. 2021 Sep 19;44(5-6):1329-52. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2021.1905328
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1905328
• dc.identifier.issn 0140-2382
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59851
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof West European Politics. 2021 Sep 19;44(5-6):1329-52
• dc.relation.isreferencedby http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14423903.v1
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/810356
• dc.rights © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword COVID-19 crisis
• dc.subject.keyword Discourse analysis
• dc.subject.keyword Polity maintenance
• dc.subject.keyword Cross-national solidarity
• dc.subject.keyword European integration
• dc.subject.keyword Merkel
• dc.title Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis
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