Event Highlights: Legitimacy Crisis and Autocratic Legalism: The Case of the EU Budget
In this lecture, which took place via Zoom on June 3, 2021, Dimitrios Skiadas, a visiting researcher at BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, discusses the EU budget as a political issue. He describes how the EU’s budgetary governance has changed over the course of the integration process. Among other topics, he addresses the “democratic deficit” and how to increase democratic accountability in the EU budget context. Eulalia Rubio, Senior Research Fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute, and Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University, provide comments.
Dimitrios Skiadas is a Professor of European Governance and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of European and International Studies-University of Macedonia in Greece. An innovative scholar focused on questions of importance to contemporary European politics, law and democracy, he is the author of fourteen books and many articles and chapters in books focused on questions of democracy, rule of law and EU governance as it relates to fiscal matters, and the problems of migration. His latest publications include a book entitled EU Migration Governance: Budgeting and Spending in Times of Crisis as Seen by the European Court of Auditors (UOM Press, 2020) and a three-volume book entitled Audit Bases of Soundness in EU Budgetary Governance (UOM Press, 2020).