In charge of European police and judicial co-operation respectively, Europol and Eurojust are tasked with facilitating exchange of information, providing support to member states in coordinating operational activities. While ‘cooperation’ or ‘coordination’ agencies endowed with...

In this paper, we address the perennial challenge that underlies the governance of European Union agencies – as well as rendering it an inherently political issue: the balance between the autonomy of agencies, arguably the crucial ingredient for the effective operation of this model, and the...

This paper focuses on the growing role of European Union (EU) agencies in the management of trans-boundary crises. It makes this development explicit, demonstrating that the emergence of multiple agencies with specific crisis preparation or response tasks has transformed the EU’s crisis...