Invitation to the online Vienna Lecture on the European Union – The Role and Accountability of EU Agencies in Managing the EU’s ‘Refugee Crisis’
An event of the EIF - Centre for European Integration Research, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Lecturers:
Chiara Loschi (University of Bologna)
Peter Slominski (EIF)
Moderation:
Gerda Falkner (IPW / EIF)
When: Monday, 31 May 2021, 17:00
Where: online (please registrate by sending an email to eif@univie.ac.at)
Abstract:
The emergence and institutionalisation of EU agencies has been widely studied by EU scholars. What has received less academic attention, however, is what role EU agencies play in managing the so-called EU’s ‘refugee crisis’. This holds particularly true with regard to the EU’s hotspot approach as one of the key EU responses to the crisis. This lecture examines the establishment and implementation of the EU hotspot approach in Italy and its operational reliance on EU agencies. Building on and extending the conceptual framework of the European Administrative Space (EAS), we show how Frontex and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) have strengthened both their independent administrative capacity and integration within the EAS. To get a more comprehensive understanding of the role of EU agencies within the Italian hotspots, we also discuss two important yet widely neglected features of administrative governance, namely the agencies’ mandate and interagency cooperation. [...]
Registration:
The lecture will be held online – please register via eif@univie.ac.at and we will send you the link shortly beforehand.
