| The proposed project aims to investigate the autonomous powers of EU agency directors and the accountability arrangements they are subject to (at the individual level), the room for manoeuvre they acquire over time, as well as the informal controls interfering with their discretion. It asks to which extent executive directors of European Union agencies are autonomous and accountable vis-à-vis the actors that have authority to constrain them and explores the consequences of the building-up of a supranational 'Eurocracy' for democratic governance in the European Union. |
