Executive Summary
In the light of the current fast-changing economic and social
context of Europe, in particular after the 2009 Eurozone crisis, a
trend of organizational transformation is underway. This crisis has
not only affected the EU member states' economic growth, it has
also exposed other fundamental problems at both the national and EU
level.
Being exposed to their structural weaknesses, numerous European
countries started to develop recovery reforms and implement
rigorous measures to keep their budgets under
control—ultimately aimed at gaining cost savings and
strengthening their organizational performance.
Additionally, EU institutions started to face organizational
challenges while providing support to the member states with more
impacts and cost-saving objectives on their functioning budget. In
turn, they responded to the crisis by aligning their strategic
objectives to those of the member states in order to effectively
deal with the national
