This article examines why Poland's formal adoption of EU Circular Economy framework failed to produce substantive policy change. Combining documentary analysis of legislative instruments with frame analysis of 65 parliamentary and media statements (December 2015 – June 2025), the authors identify three mechanisms – cognitive narrowing, motivational subordination, and hierarchical destabilisation – associated with substantive hollowing, i.e. formal adoption with progressive erosion of transformative content. Findings from the analysed corpus suggest that compliance rhetoric systematically displaced systemic framing across all reception phases with implications for how ideational Europeanisation is studied beyond formal compliance.
Examining the role of direct effect and consistent interpretation in the context of horizontal relationships—contractual or otherwise—this article argues that understanding of EU law’s internal effect must be reconsidered when relationships are purely horizontal. It seeks to capture, frame, and conceptualise that eff...
Daniel Gallo· Cambridge Yearbook of Europe...· 0 citations
The Circular Economy (CE) is widely promoted as a regenerative alternative to linear production, yet mainstream CE theories and frameworks are predominantly rooted in Global North and Eurocentric epistemologies and technocentrism. In this paper, I argue that such epistemologies and technocentrism ignores informal econo...
Ambisisi Ambituuni· Journal of Circular Economy· 0 citations
Fragmentation in the polarisation research field prompted leading scholars to call for the development of systemic, integrative approaches to understanding the phenomenon. This thesis answers that call by constructing a model where different interpretations of polarisation can be co-located and examined. The model oper...
Limits of Western International Relations Research: Bias, Theory and Decontextualisation undertakes a dual inquiry: it examines methodological practices in international relations (IR) research and evaluates the quality of media reporting, with the 2008 Russo-Georgian War serving as the primary case study. The secondar...
Abstract This introduction to the Symposium on the (re)turn of activist government in the EU is structured around four guiding research questions: whether the EU’s shift toward state interventionism is structural or contingent; how the emerging forms of state activism relate to the preceding neoliberal paradigm; to wha...
L. Antoniolli, M. Dani· European Law Open· 0 citations
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