The governance of the EU milieu

James Sperling

Chapter 6 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 82-98 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Milieu governance is intended to overcome the conceptual weaknesses of regional governance. Regional governance is conceptually predisposed to exclude the importance of a region as a governance referent for external actors and to minimize the role of external actors with respect to shaping the institutional and normative architecture of a governance system. Although regional governance enjoys undeniable cartographic elegance, it ignores the social construction of geopolitical spaces, regional or otherwise, that shift over time and according to the issue area. The introduction of the concept of milieu governance seeks to remedy those disabilities. It proposes an operational definition of milieu governance, specifies the necessary enabling conditions for the EU to engage in milieu governance, identifies the content of the milieu-shaping policies and goals animating EU governance policies, and explores the gap between the normative rhetoric describing EU milieu goals and the material purposes of milieu governance.

Keywords: EU; Milieu governance; Public goods; Possession goals; Milieu goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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