Abstract
Despite its importance both domestically and for the EU as a system, how states manage their interaction with the EU has been largely a niche interest in the scholarly literature. Moreover, those studies that have addressed the topic tend to be selective in terms of the states they investigate and are also now outdated. A new volume, edited by Eva Heidbreder and Hussein Kassim, still in progress, revisits the topic with three aims: first to argue for a new conceptualisation of national EU coordination as a variable in EU governance; second to compare how the EU27 as well as three non-members approach national EU coordination; and third, to examine the ‘careers’ (Lascoumes and le Galès 2007) of the arrangements put in place by those states. A particular interest is to determine the extent to which, where there is change rather than continuity, domestic drivers, EU-level developments – notably, the impact of the reforms introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and the new demands on member states arising from the deepening and broadening of the European Semester – and/or wider international factors have been responsible.
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