| Summary |
This study focuses on the review and adoption of management methods in the European Parliament. The path followed by this study starts with an analysis of the experience garnered in recent years thanks to the introduction of the planning method together with the matrix approach. It continues by analysing the emergence, in parallel, of technological innovation as a supporting factor in the idea of an administrative ecosystem, where people, space and tools are interconnected and inseparable. Technology is also a factor in strengthening the development of representative democracy, which the EP administration is in place to serve. Then I examine the consequence of all of this on modern management, of which the concept of knowledge sharing is a crucial pillar. Finally, the results of the analysis are taken into account by placing them in the current context and evaluating their outlook. The objective of the study is, therefore, to understand what are the elements that will define the European Parliament administration (EPA) in the near future, from as early as the 2019 elections, but also with an eye to the next years: indeed, administration capacity is a pre-requisite for delivering the institution’s mission and objectives. The administration must build on solid foundation the ability to reflect today’s needs and anticipate tomorrow needs. No administration can set its managerial approach independent of external forces that affect its activity in a more or less direct way. The administration of a political institution such as the European Parliament must take into account external factors and the environment in which it acts, even more than other administrations. This is why developing the present analysis on “the working methods of the EP in the near future” needs, first of all, to recall the challenges that the EU is facing nowadays: immigration, terrorism, nationalism/sovereignism, populism and sometime forms of authoritarianism (illiberal democracy), all undermining the citizens’ European feeling. They are all elements that are changing the old political balance (in terms of both political families and inter-States relationships) and fostering the crisis of the European sentiment. |
