Europeanisation through the European Women’s Lobby: A sociological comparison of the French and Belgian national Coordinations

What impacts has the creation of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) had on the national feminist CSOs in France and Belgium? To find this out, I examine how the national CSOs’ coordinations have adapted their practices, discourses, strategies and internal organisation to be part of the European Civil Society. Stemming from 34 interviews and two internships within both French and Belgian EWL intermediary coordinations, I put forward an actor-based sociological perspective focusing on three causal paths in order to explain the findings derived from comparing the Europeanisation of the CSOs in... Mehr ...