EU agencies in contemporary academic research

Today EU (independent) agencies seem to require hardly any introduction. Their proliferation in quantitative and ‘qualitative’ (powers) terms has attracted an incredible amount of attention from scholars of political science, public administration, and law as well as of EU and national policy-makers. After an approximately a decade of a somewhat general discussion, which has produced a number of seminal publications and policy documents, the contemporary trend in investigating EU agencies seems to have become zooming in to more specific questions and relationships from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Two of such relationships, namely EU Commission – EU agencies and Member States – EU agencies, will be critically assessed in this commentary in light of reviewing two recent publications by Egeberg et al. and Buess.
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