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Eight years ago, the Open Method of Coordination was codified as a mode of governance to implement the Lisbon strategy of the European Union which aims to turn the European economy into the most competitive and most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. Since then, the OMC has often been highlighted as a "third way" in European governance – an alternative to intergovernmental negotiations and the Classical Community Method. Hopes that the OMC could develop into a "third way" would be destroyed if the OMC had considerable potential to promote institutional- spillover and this way to encourage the European Commission's competence creep. In that case, the OMC could be seen as having a bridging function between the two traditional methods used to govern the EU. Based on the supranationalism as put forward by Sandholtz and Stone Sweet (1998), this paper analyses the OMC's potential to promote institutional-spillover in European education policy. With institutional-spillover I mean an increase of the decisional autonomy or capacity of the European Commission. The analysis reveals that the OMC's potential to promote institutional-spillover in education is very small as it neither increases participation of transnational society in the policy-making process nor sufficiently increases the autonomy of joint organisations such as the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.

"Das Papier untersucht die Einführung der Offenen Methode der Koordinierung (OMK) in der Europäischen Union. Dieses neue Politikinstrument ist in den letzten zehn Jahren als Alternative zur Gemeinschaftsmethode entstanden und hat in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen. Allerdings wird der Zusammenhang seiner Einführung mit der Europäischen Währungsunion oft nur kursorisch bemerkt, ohne ihm ausführlich nachzugehen. Dieses Papier möchte im Gegensatz dazu genau auf diesen Zusammenhang aufmerksam machen, um auf zwei Arten zum Forschungsstand beizutragen: Ersten fügt der theoretische Teil drei Elemente zu Piersons historisch-institutionalistischer Analyse der Europäischen Integration hinzu. Zweitens soll mit Hilfe des modifizierten historisch-institutionalistischen Ansatzes eine Alternative zu funktionalistischen Erklärungen der OMK dargestellt werden. Dabei lautet das Argument, dass die Mitte-Rechts-Koalition in Maastricht Regeln für die Haushalts- und Geldpolitik verabschiedete, die nachfolgende Regierungen binden würden. Die sozialdemokratische Mehrheit in Amsterdam einigte sich hingegen auf weiche Regeln in der Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik, um den eigenen Handlungsspielraum nicht unnötig einzuengen. Während die Inhalte des Amsterdamer Beschäftigungstitels durch die Währungsunion bestimmt wurden, schuldet es seine Form - die OMK - dem Unwillen sozialdemokratischer Regierungen, Befugnisse an die EU abzugeben." (Autorenreferat)

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Since 2000, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has become a policy approach increasingly used in the European policy making process. By focusing on research policy, this study examines the ways in which the OMC and the mutual learning initiatives have influenced the wider policy discourse in the European Union. The paper argues that it is important to think about the contributions of the OMC in research policy in more broad and fundamental ways. This theory-guided study takes an empirical approach to the OMC, providing significant evidence on mutual learning effects analyzed in terms of developing an authentic dialogue, shaping policy discourse, shaping policy networks and facilitating collaborative learning. The analysis reveals that the OMC changes the ways in which the representatives from the Member States and the European Commission contribute to research policy, leading to a promising foundation for further policy enhancement.

How can we best describe the operation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and how can we improve policy-making in CSDP? The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is predicated on the conviction that there are clear limits to the extent that European Union (EU) foreign and security policy can be strengthened through the restricting tendencies of intergovernmental cooperation between EU member states. Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) - agreed by the European Council and 25 EU member states in 2017 - offers practical instruments towards delivering value-added capacity to the process of crisis management beyond intergovernmentalism. As a process, PESCO is analogous to the logic of OMC, including more appropriate levels of coordination at the national organisational level in order to effectively facilitate the EU's comprehensive approach to conflict prevention and crisis management. The requirement for new and 'open' types of EU foreign and security policy coordination is underlined by the immense differences between EU member states in external policy, both concerning national crisis management structures and the resulting inefficient segmentation of policy at the EU level. .

Since 2000, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has become a policy approach increasingly used in the European policy making process. By focusing on research policy, this study examines the ways in which the OMC and the mutual learning initiatives have influenced the wider policy discourse in the European Union. The paper argues that it is important to think about the contributions of the OMC in research policy in more broad and fundamental ways. This theory-guided study takes an empirical approach to the OMC, providing significant evidence on mutual learning effects analyzed in terms of developing an authentic dialogue, shaping policy discourse, shaping policy networks and facilitating collaborative learning. The analysis reveals that the OMC changes the ways in which the representatives from the Member States and the European Commission contribute to research policy, leading to a promising foundation for further policy enhancement. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v7i2.218

This paper analyses the potential effects of the open method of coordination (OMC) on pension reforms in the European Union. The main results are: (1) The OMC on pensions might foster yardstick competition by providing reliable benchmarks and by improving the quality and quantity of information about successful pension policies in other member states. However, remaining difficulties in defining indicators and with data availability have to be overcome to fully develop its potential. (2) Its impact on national pension policy formation and thus on direct policy transfer will remain low. Although it provides additional input in the political decision-making process, it does not fundamentally alter the incentive structure of national political markets. Therefore, the OMC on pensions will not effectively reduce the obstacles to profound national pension reforms, but it may turn out to contribute to the development of a common EU social-policy paradigm.