Fit for the future

List of Contributors ix

Foreword xi

1 Introduction – The Dutch Presidency: Coping with a Union in Flux 1
Bernard Steunenberg, Wim Voermans and Stefaan Van den Bogaert

Part I EU Institutions and Regulation
2 Taking Decisions or Setting Norms? – EU Presidencies between Executive and Legislative Power in a Crisis-Driven Union 11
Luuk van Middelaar
3 The Transnational Mediatization of the European Council – An Emergent Venue for Agenda Setting? 29
Caspar van den Berg and Bas van Eybergen
4 Commission Guidance as Informal Implementation Tool: Fit for the Future? 53
Claartje van Dam
5 Beating about the Bush in ‘Better Regulation’ 69
Wim Voermans
6 Regulation, Implementation, and European Integration – Analyzing the Evolving Institutional Framework for Enforcing EU Law 89
Dimiter Toshkov
7 Connecting Different ‘Worlds’ – The Implementation of European Policy in a Multilevel Context 103
Bernard Steunenberg

Part II EU Policies and the Member States
8 Of Carrots and Sticks – What Direction to Take for Economic and Monetary Union? 125
Stefaan Van den Bogaert and Armin Cuyvers
9 It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To – ‘Celebrating’ Thirty Years of Schengen 147
Jorrit J. Rijpma
10 The Free Movement of Workers under Discussion within the Social Council 171
Guus Heerma van Voss
11 Promoting the Dutch Experience in the EU – The Case of the Proposed Anti-Discrimination Directive 185
Giovanni Gruni and Christa Tobler
12 EUCooperation and Coordination of Enforcement within the Fields of Occupational Safety and Food Safety 201
Jaap Uijlenbroek and Rob W. Velders
13 The Europeanization of the Dutch Senior Civil Service 2007- 2013 217
Caspar van den Berg and Eduard Schmidt

Part III The EU in the World
14 The European Union as a Geopolitical Player 243
Rob de Wijk and Sijbren de Jong
15 Enlargement as Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans: Has It Reached Its Limits? 265
Antoaneta Dimitrova and Elitsa Kortenska
16 The Role of theEUin Dealing with the Multi-Facetted Phenomenon of Radicalization and Terrorism 291
Jelle van Buuren and Edwin Bakker
17 Revitalising the Silk Road – EU-China Relations under the Dutch Presidency 311
Richard T. Griffiths