ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the instruments set up to coordinate European Union (EU)-related matters within domestic governments in times of crisis. The interdisciplinary perspective adopted combines the doctrinal reconstruction of the regulation concerning EU coordination with a practical analysis. European integration has determined the transfer of legislative matters from the domestic level to the supranational level, thereby fostering an internal shift of power towards the executives, which represent the State within the EU institutions. It is possible to identify both commonalities and differences in the evolution of the EU coordination mechanisms in the years since the crisis. A shared pattern in the management of the crisis has been the centralization of EU policy coordination in the domestic arena. Decentralization, fragmentation, and informality had been the longstanding features of EU coordination. Although Europeanization of the administrations calls for more uniformity, national specificities and traditions play a major role in the organization of domestic institutions.
