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Accountability in EU Economic Governance: European Commissioners in Polish Parliament

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  • Tomasz P. Woźniakowski

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This article analyses the interactions between the members of the Polish parliament with the European commissioners in the context of the European Semester, the annual cycle of economic coordination. The Commission drafts crucial documents in this process which assess the implementation of the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs): the Annual (Sustainable) Growth Survey and the Country Reports. The goal of this article is to assess how the Commission is held to account by a national parliament and how this affects the level of implementation of CSRs. The findings suggest that the Commission is accountable to this national parliament, even if the form of accountability taken is rather innovative and its policy impact limited, at both the EU (the CSRs tend to be immune to Members of [national] Parliament’s contestation) and the national level, as the implementation of CSRs seems to be independent of the level of their scrutiny.

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  • Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, 2021. "Accountability in EU Economic Governance: European Commissioners in Polish Parliament," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(3), pages 155-162.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:poango:v9:y:2021:i:3:p:155-162
    DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i3.4335
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