Integration through expansive unification: the birth of the European Health Union

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• dc.contributor.author Ferrera, Maurizio
• dc.contributor.author Kyriazi, Anna
• dc.contributor.author Miró Artigas, Joan
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-06T12:06:47Z
• dc.date.available 2024-06-06T12:06:47Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.date.updated 2024-06-06T12:06:47Z
• dc.description.abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU's health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, and the upgrading of the Decision on serious cross-border threats to health. This article analyses the reconfiguration of authority patterns resulting from these reforms. It argues that the EHU exemplifies a distinct mode of integration (expansive unification) in which national sovereignty is not transferred to the center but is jointly exercised at the center. This mode of integration is suitable for capacity building in core state domains when functional needs confront reluctance from constituent units to surrender control.
• dc.description.sponsorship Our research was supported by the European Research Council under the Synergy Grant number ERC_SYG_2018 grant number 810356, for the project Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU post 2008-SOLID.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ferrera M, Kyriazi A, Miró J. Integration through expansive unification: the birth of the European Health Union. Publius. 2024 Fall;54(4):711-36. DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjae006
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjae006
• dc.identifier.issn 0048-5950
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60382
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Publius. 2024 Fall;54(4):711-36
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/810356
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of CSF Associates: Publius, Inc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.other Salut pública -- Unió Europea, Països de la
• dc.title Integration through expansive unification: the birth of the European Health Union
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