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Backsliding as new transboundary crisis for the European Union

TransCrisis blog post by Martin Lodge and Nick Sitter

Crisis management is usually associated with urgency: immediate actions are called for to respond to fast-moving and escalating problems. However, recent years have given rise to a new type of crisis for the European Union (EU). This new, more chronic, type of crisis which goes to the heart of the EU is that of backsliding.