Europe and the recomposition of national forums: the French case

The impact of Europe on national policy-making must take into account the differentiation of the state which is analysed here as a complex structure of forums and arenas regulating segmented domains of public action. The unequal Europeanization of public policies, the resulting insulation of monetary and financial policies, and the prevalence of intergovernmental negotiation, are generally congruent with a neo-liberal refrentiel advocating a depoliticization of public regulation. The open mode co-ordination, in its present forms, does not counterbalance the decline of the public debate induced by this reordering of the policy forums.