不断演化的欧盟问责格局:迈向更加紧密的联盟

The evolving EU accountability landscape: moving to an ever denser union

本文旨在通过追踪当前欧盟行政部门的问责发展格局,让欧盟走出行政问责的阴影。文章检视了欧盟问责仲裁机构(和机制)的发展和变化:设置了哪些问责仲裁机构和制度以使欧盟行政权力负起责任。本文并非聚焦单一的问责领域,而是将欧盟的问责发展视为一幅复杂的格局。我们没有假设这一格局是静态均衡的,而是从一开始就认为其是不断演化的,以此探索为基础,本文发现欧盟问责制度框架是通过拼凑方式演化的,由此产生了复杂的多层治理格局,以适应时下关于如何控制权力、如何实现问责的推定。

This article aims to bring the accountability of the EU executive out of the shadows by tracing the development of the current accountability landscape around the main EU’s executive actors. It looks at the development and the diversification of accountability forums(and mechanisms) in the EU: what forums and arrangements have come into being for holding the EU executive powers accountable? Instead of focusing on single individual accountability branches, this article examines the development of accountability in the EU by treating it as a complex landscape. And rather than assuming equilibrium, a starting point is the evolving nature of this landscape. On the basis of this exploration, the article seeks to understand the way in which the EU’s institutional accountability framework has evolved through a patchwork of arrangements, and how this contributes to the emergence of a complex, multilayered governance landscape in order to fit within today’s presumptions about how power should be controlled and accountability achieved.