What Comes After the Last Chance Commission?
What Comes After the Last Chance Commission?

Policy Priorities for 2019-2024

Author(s): Steven Blockmans, Mehtap Akgüç, Ciniza Alcidi, Sara Baiocco, Miroslav Beblavý, Sergio Carrera, Willem Pieter DE GROEN, Christian Egenhofer, Milan Elkerbout, Daniel Gros, Weinian Hu, Zachary Kilhoffer, Karel Lannoo, Jacques Pelkmans, Andrea Renda, Sophia Russack, Guillaume Van der Loo
Contributor(s): Steven Blockmans (Editor)
Subject(s): Labor relations, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Welfare systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Financial Markets
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Political commission; EU JHA Policies; Security and defence policies; EU's trade and investment policy; economic governance; Financial markets; social policy;
Summary/Abstract: When the current European Commission began its mandate on 1 November 2014 under President Jean-Claude Juncker, it did so in highly inauspicious political circumstances. The EU was still suffering one of the most severe financial and economic crises since World War II; unemployment had hit unprecedentedly high levels; inter-governmental emergency measures burdened the Union’s democratic quality; and the trust in European institutions of apolitics-fatigued electorate had hit an all-time low.

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