Ariadna Ripoll Servent
@aripollservent.bsky.social
Professor for EU Politics, Director of @sceus.bsky.social at Uni Salzburg | working on #EU, #EuropeanParliament, #migration, #populism | Teaches at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
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Our conclusion: EU migration governance is best characterised as 'supranationalism without integration'. The Commission has been empowered as a technocratic trustee, but the functional problems that produced the 2015 crisis remain unresolved.
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May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Our conclusion: EU migration governance is best characterised as 'supranationalism without integration'. The Commission has been empowered as a technocratic trustee, but the functional problems that produced the 2015 crisis remain unresolved.
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Yet this empowerment has clear limits. The Dublin model survives intact. Solidarity between member states remains elusive.
Governing through technocracy rather than political negotiation risks providing populist actors with a powerful delegitimising narrative. 6/7
Governing through technocracy rather than political negotiation risks providing populist actors with a powerful delegitimising narrative. 6/7
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Yet this empowerment has clear limits. The Dublin model survives intact. Solidarity between member states remains elusive.
Governing through technocracy rather than political negotiation risks providing populist actors with a powerful delegitimising narrative. 6/7
Governing through technocracy rather than political negotiation risks providing populist actors with a powerful delegitimising narrative. 6/7
The Commission responded by developing a new role as technocratic trustee by managing EU funds, deploying agencies, and building new governance instruments. Through these non-legislative tools, it became a coordinator and centraliser of power. 5/7
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The Commission responded by developing a new role as technocratic trustee by managing EU funds, deploying agencies, and building new governance instruments. Through these non-legislative tools, it became a coordinator and centraliser of power. 5/7
After 2015, the European Council acted as a trouble-maker rather than a problem-solver, blocking reform of the EU asylum and migration and constraining the Commission's capacity to propose long-ranging reforms.
But this paralysis opened an unexpected window of opportunity elsewhere. 4/7
But this paralysis opened an unexpected window of opportunity elsewhere. 4/7
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
After 2015, the European Council acted as a trouble-maker rather than a problem-solver, blocking reform of the EU asylum and migration and constraining the Commission's capacity to propose long-ranging reforms.
But this paralysis opened an unexpected window of opportunity elsewhere. 4/7
But this paralysis opened an unexpected window of opportunity elsewhere. 4/7
New intergovernmentalism argued the polycrisis produced 'integration without supranationalism'. Migration, we argue, tells a very different story, one where the institutional outcome runs in the opposite direction. 3/7
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
New intergovernmentalism argued the polycrisis produced 'integration without supranationalism'. Migration, we argue, tells a very different story, one where the institutional outcome runs in the opposite direction. 3/7
It is part of a special issue on European Council normalisation by Derek Beach, @uwepuetter.bsky.social and Sandrino Smeets. We examine how the European Council and the Commission work together once the dust of a the refugee crisis settles: and the answer is more paradoxical than expected. 2/7
May 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
It is part of a special issue on European Council normalisation by Derek Beach, @uwepuetter.bsky.social and Sandrino Smeets. We examine how the European Council and the Commission work together once the dust of a the refugee crisis settles: and the answer is more paradoxical than expected. 2/7