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The political commissioner : a European ethnography / Frédéric Mérand.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Mérand, Frédéric, 1976- author.
Series:: Transformations in governance
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Diplomatic relations.; European Union countries--Relations.; European Union countries.; European Union countries--Politics and government.; France--Foreign relations--European Union countries.; France.; European Union countries--Foreign relations--France.; European Commission.; Moscovici, Pierre.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (245 pages)
Place of Publication:: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Summary:: This book develops a sociology of international political work, based on four years of embedded observation inside the cabinet of a European Commissioner.
Contents:: Cover; The Political Commissioner: A European Ethnography; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of figures; Introduction; Jean-Claude Juncker's gamble; The most political commissioner of the political Commission?; Political work under constraint; Political work and its effects; The art of politics; Notes; 1: The Moscos; The Brussels cabinet; The cabinet meeting; A week in the life of the French cabinet; The boss; The staff; The Brussels people; The Parisians; Esprit de corps; Methodology for an ethnographic narrative; 2: Facing Varoufakis: Greece, 2009-2015; From improvisation to exhaustion (2009-14); Enter the troika; The second program; To cut or to reform?; All quiet on the Greek front?; The winter of chaos; A misunderstanding; Referendum betrayed; The Varoufakis story; An alternative within the program?; 3: "We have to build a success story": Greece, 2015-2019; Between Athens, Berlin, and Washington; What reforms?; Good cop, bad cop; The conflict with the IMF; Is a political approach credible?; A second review that goes on and on; Compromise over a meal; Toward exit; The end of the program; Toward normalization; A fourth program under a new name?; In Athens; Visiting Tsipras; Syntagma Square; "So you wanted to see a commissioner who does politics? There you have it!"; 4: A socialist, French commissioner; From French politician to European commissioner; The first test; "Because it is France"; Bercy's liability; "Europe in the Berlaymont press room: that's what killed it"; The last French socialist?; Hollande and Macron; The first European socialist?; The battle of the Spitzenkandidaten; "Being a socialist is difficult"; Notes.; 5: Discipline, not punish: Budget disputes with Spain and Portugal; The Stability and Growth Pact, in theory; The Stability and Growth Pact in practice; Iberian politics at the Commission; Conservative Spain; Socialist Portugal; Saving time; The Jesuit's moment; A European stimulus?; Growth is back!; 6: Italian populists and the Pact; "We're all making progress in Italian"; From Renzi to Gentiloni; Political agreement, economic concerns; The populists take Rome; Hell breaks loose; The Italian trap; Rules or politics?; An outstretched hand, really?; The compromise of last resort; The fall of the populist coalition; 7: The failed reform of the eurozone; Agreed reforms get bogged down; A mobilization campaign; Brexit, interrupted; Toward the white paper; Ambiguous or radioactive?; Macron's hope, Merkel's cold shower; The St. Nicholas package; The "dangers of a small package"; Resisting conditionality; Time to compromise; The New Hanseatic League faces the Franco-German axis; The Meseberg summit; 8: No representation without taxation: Fighting tax avoidance; "We had forgotten about taxation!"; A winter of bliss; Tax rulings and banking secrecy; The list of tax havens; A technical . . . and political list; The "transparency revolution"; Between Parliament and the Council; "We're playing against the clock"; Majority in Parliament, unanimity in Council; The unattainable VAT reform; Europe's fault; Addendum: Brexit, a nonpolitical issue; "Décidez les premiers, messieurs les Anglais"; Brexit and the customs union; The cabinet in observation mode; The backstop, a political issue . . . in London and Dublin; 9: Tax justice: The GAFAs and corporate taxation; Harmonizing corporate taxation rules; The relaunch of the CCCTB.; Business-friendly tax justice; Circumventing obstacles; The impatience of some, the veto of others; Digital taxation, EU style; How to tax the GAFAs; Preparing the Council; "Give the French the means to tax Google"; Skepticism in Washington; Dithering in Berlin; The OECD takes over; Conclusion: Before the pandemic; From the political Commission to the geopolitical Commission; The return of the political Commission?; Political work and reflexivity; Political work: practices and strategies; The limits of the Moscovici case; "Was it an experiment or a method?"; Epilogue; Index.
Notes:: Description based on print version record.
ISBN:: 0-19-264624-9; 0-19-191515-7; 0-19-264623-0; 9780192893970; 9780192646231
OCLC:: 1255219415

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