Resumen de Futures in EU governance: Anticipatory governance, strategic foresight and EU Better Regulation

Gaby Umbach

• Contemporary politics require a swift and responsive policy-making approach to respond to emer-gency situations quickly and to anticipate them in a strategic manner. Maintaining decision-makingagility in times of urgency makes it necessary to think ahead of stress-impacting situations. Toincrease systemic resilience, policies must be designed in an adaptive way. Strategic options, futurityof policies and potential futures must be elaborated and kept in sight when developing policies.Anticipatory governance and strategic foresight activities are elements of such an adaptive gover-nance mode. To transform decision-making in a future-oriented way, these forward-planningelements need to be institutionalised to support governance resilience. This article asks howanticipatory governance and strategic foresight are embedded within EU multilevel governance. Itinvestigates the EU Better Regulation Agenda to understand how anticipatory governance alreadycontributes to EU governance. Additionally, it discusses how the institutionalisation of strategicforesight can contribute to EU anticipatory governance