Процесът на номиниране на ръководители на институциите на Европейския съюз като израз на нова управленска философия
The Nomination of New EU Top Officials as a New Governance Philosophy

Author(s): Dimitar Pehlivanov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Public Administration
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Nominations; EU Top Officials; Values; Compromise
Summary/Abstract: The nomination of new EU top officials was expected by a great interest because of the first elections for EP after the big refugee and immigrant crisis from 2015. The elections for the European Parliament in Mai 2019 didn’t confirm the expectations for a big progress of the populist parties, but all this presupposed also the big interest in the process of nomination of new EU top officials. Meanwhile, this was not the most difficult process of nomination in general, but it was one of the longest European Summits. The media reflection also contributed to the acceptance of this election marathon as being the longest and the hardest. Finally, representatives of the biggest states have occupied all the main posts, but this has its strong and justified logic, namely the centrifugal forces in EU provoke counter centripetal forces and a bigger strive towards control and centralization, the challenge of Brexit requiring other different compromises. The thesis that the eastern wing countries were harmed by this redistribution cannot be accepted as true and doesn’t support a strong and deep analysis – those countries have blocked successfully several applications for EC Presidents. A similar redistribution corresponds entirely to the current tendencies in the EU development and the philosophy of its new governance.

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