The European Union in search of systemic balance. An analysis involving the concept of resilience

• Authors: Wierzchowska, Anna

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the issue of EU political system seen as a set of institutional and legal mechanisms and solutions looking for a way to lead and maintain its internal balance. This problem is included in line with the assumptions of the resilience concept, which is a fundamental theoretical assumption at work. Resilience, or flexibility, the ability to adapt and “bounce off the bottom”, to recuperate, is referred to the EU as a prospect of a research perspective indicating the paths of thinking about the regularity of the development of the EU system in the long term. Recourse to such a framework is implied in the EU by the nature of the integration structure and the political system whose creation was initiated in 1957 with the establishment of the EEC. Analysis carried out in the article leads to conclusion that the EU political system is characterised by resilience- -specific properties, which makes it flexible in responding to emerging difficulties and tensions. At the same time, the solutions and mechanisms implemented on this basis lead to the deepening of differences. Achieving a system balance becomes difficult.

Keywords

EN

process of European integration; political system of the European Union; systemic balance; resilience; crisis

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 2017 (46)(4)
• Pages: 10-38

Dates

published

2019-05-30

Contributors

author

Wierzchowska, Anna

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.17.1