The True Raison D'Être of the Open Method of Coordination

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beryl ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Open Method ◽  
Open Method Of Coordination

The Open Method Of Coordination: Obstinate Or Obsolete?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Open Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Method Of Coordination ◽  
Eu Governance ◽  
National Economic ◽  
New Form

Policy coordination in one form or another has been a feature of EU governance for the past two decades. Developing initially as a mechanism through which to coordinate national economic policies in the shadow of economic and monetary union (EMU), and extending to the coordination of employment policies through the European Employment Strategy, by the 2000s, policy coordination was being heralded as a new form of governance to be deployed to achieve the aims of the Lisbon Strategy of economic and social reform. Indeed, such was the interest in this new form of EU governance, it even acquired its own distinctive nomenclature—the ‘open method of coordination’ (OMC).

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