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Accountability in EU Economic Governance: European Commissioners in Polish Parliament
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Abstract This article analyses the interactions between the members of the Polish parliament with the European commissioners in the context of the European Semester, the annual cycle of economic coordination. The Commission drafts crucial documents in this process which assess the implementation of the Count... view more
This article analyses the interactions between the members of the Polish parliament with the European commissioners in the context of the European Semester, the annual cycle of economic coordination. The Commission drafts crucial documents in this process which assess the implementation of the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs): the Annual (Sustainable) Growth Survey and the Country Reports. The goal of this article is to assess how the Commission is held to account by a national parliament and how this affects the level of implementation of CSRs. The findings suggest that the Commission is accountable to this national parliament, even if the form of accountability taken is rather innovative and its policy impact limited, at both the EU (the CSRs tend to be immune to Members of [national] Parliament’s contestation) and the national level, as the implementation of CSRs seems to be independent of the level of their scrutiny.... view less
Keywords
EU; Poland; European Commission; national politics; economic policy; EU policy; parliament; political control
Classification
European Politics
Free Keywords
CSRs; EU accountability; EU economic governance; European Semester; Sejm; national parliaments
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 155-162
Journal
Politics and Governance, 9 (2021) 3
Issue topic
Rising to a Challenge? Ten Years of Parliamentary Accountability of the European Semester
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed