Introduction : the European Ombudsman beyond old battles and navigating new challenges

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dc.contributor.authorCURTIN, Deirdre
dc.contributor.authorEHNERT, Tanja
dc.contributor.authorMORANDINI, Anna
dc.contributor.authorTAS, Sarah Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-03T10:40:11Z
dc.date.available2025-06-03T10:40:11Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 29 January 2025
dc.description.abstractFor almost 30 years, the European Ombudsman (EO) has striven to ensure good administration in the European Union (EU). It has made remarkable achievements. As struggles against instances of undue influence, secrecy or incomplete accountability continue in an EU administration that assumes ever more responsibilities, its role remains absolutely pivotal. With the third EO leaving office, crucial perennial battles demand new strategies while issues related to current developments such as the digitalisation, environmental crisis and securitisation, pose distinct challenges. With innovation engrained in its DNA, the EO keeps entering new stages of its evolution in its aspiration of ensuring good administration. This volume takes a future-facing look at the major challenges the EO faces. Drawing on experience and the successes of the past decades, it discusses approaches the EO is or should be developing. It complements the emerging doctrinal literature on the EO with stakeholder voices on its evolving and future challenges and strategies. This book thereby lends voice to those who review, rely on and produce the EO’s work: academics, civil society actors, EU institutions and bodies and the EO office. We believe that this diversity of perspectives can show the many facets of the work, influence and potential of this unique EU institution. It gathers the expectations the EO encounters and the central areas and strategies it ought to consider. In this introductory chapter, we briefly depict how the current position and strategy of the EO emerged, before highlighting the central challenges it faces. Lastly, we detail the vision of this volume and give an overview of its chapters.
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dc.identifier.citationDeirdre CURTIN, Tanja EHNERT, Anna MORANDINI and Sarah TAS (eds), The European Ombudsman investigated : from old battles to new challenges, Oxford : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 1-10
dc.identifier.doi10.5040/9781509975631.0005
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dc.publisherBloomsbury Academic
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