Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303385 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
LEQS Paper No. 102
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), European Institute, London
Abstract: 
By focusing on the near-term campaign in the 2014 European elections analysts have tended to over-look a series of longer-term trends that were jointly and inexorably leading to the Spitzenkandidaten (lead candidate) process and to some at least of the subsequent structural reforms to the Commission. The paper argues that those longer-term trends continue and that the (s)election of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission and the structural reforms he subsequently introduced are better understood as steps in ongoing processes rather than fresh departures. Thus, what will happen in 2019 will have been conditioned not only by 2014, but also by previous elections and previous developments, as considered in this paper.
Subjects: 
European Commission Presidency
Jean-Claude Juncker
Spitzenkandidaten
European Parliament
Longer-Term Trends
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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