Freudlsperger Christian, Lipps Jana, Nasr Mohamed, Schilpp Elizabeth, Schimmelfennig Frank, Yildirim Aydin
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
J Eur Public Policy. 2024 Jan 23;31(10):3151-3175. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2294143. eCollection 2024.
When the member states imposed unilateral restrictions on the cross-border movement of persons and goods in their initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU appeared to relapse into the 'politics trap' of earlier integration crises. However, our analysis of entry restrictions for persons in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland from the end of 2019 to the summer of 2022 shows no systematic relationship between domestic politicisation and national border closures. Rather, border closures followed the course of the pandemic as well as EU recommendations. Our findings suggest that the EU was able to escape the 'politics trap' thanks to the exogenous and symmetrical nature of the crisis and effective EU-level policy coordination.
在应对新冠疫情的初期，当成员国对人员和货物的跨境流动实施单边限制时，欧盟似乎又陷入了早期一体化危机的“政治陷阱”。然而，我们对2019年底至2022年夏季法国、德国、意大利、荷兰和波兰的人员入境限制进行的分析表明，国内政治化与国家边境关闭之间没有系统性关联。相反，边境关闭是随着疫情发展以及欧盟的建议而进行的。我们的研究结果表明，由于危机的外部性和对称性以及欧盟层面有效的政策协调，欧盟得以摆脱“政治陷阱”。
