Our co-researcher Frédéric Mérand (Université de Montréal) and our collaborating member Clément Fontan (Université catholique de Louvain) contributed to a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) edited by Amandine Crespy, Tiago Moreira Ramalho & Vivien Schmidt under the theme “Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’: reconfigurations of EU economic governance in response to crises”.

In his article entitled “The Commissioner vs the states: responsiveness and responsibility in European tax governance“, Frédéric Mérand applies the concept of “political work” to analyse EU tax policy between 2014 and 2019 and shows how responsiveness policy has partly eroded the institutional constraints of accountability vis-à-vis Member States.

In their article entitled “The ECB and the inflation monsters: strategic framing and the responsibility imperative (1998–2023)“, Aurélien Goutsmedt (UCLouvain) and Clément Fontan (UCLouvain) study how the ECB adjusted its logic of responsibility during the most recent inflation crises in Europe. Using a thematic model and an in-depth analysis of speeches, they examine the ECB’s policy framework for inflation-related linkages over three historical periods.

The issue also includes contributions from Tom Massart, David Howarth, Laura Pierret, Nicolas Jabko, Nils Kupzok, Lucy Kinski, Michaël Blauberger, Diane Fromage, Claire Dupuy, Virginie Van Ingelgom, Donatella Della Porta, Louisa Parks, and Martin Portos.