Download or read book The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States written by Ieva Grumbinaitė and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States explores the opportunities and burdens for small states of holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. While the functions and the achievements of the Council presidencies have been widely studied on the EU level, this book adopts the inverse and under-researched perspective of looking at the "domestic" impact of the Council presidency on the Member State, specifically small Member States. Combining new institutionalist theoretical approaches under the concept of Europeanisation, and employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book explores whether the Council presidency leads to Europeanisation of national polities and politics. More specifically, the book looks at the impact of the Council presidency on national administrations, ministers and public opinion. It suggests that the Council presidency presents a unique opportunity to (re)engage with EU affairs and institutions for Member States, especially the small ones and those holding the position for the first time. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, researchers and academics of International Relations and European Integration, specifically those interested in small states in the European Union or the rotating European Union Council presidency.
Download or read book Turning them Into we written by Ieva Grumbinaitė and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), held by each Member State (MS) for six months in turn, is seen both as an opportunity and a burden for the MS. While the functions and the achievements of the Council presidencies have been widely studied on the EU level, this thesis adopts the inverse, and under-researched perspective of looking at what holding the presidency means for the MS and whether it fulfills its alleged function of bringing Europe closer to the MS. Combining new institutionalist theoretical approaches under the concept of Europeanisation and employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, this thesis addresses the question of whether the Council presidency leads to Europeanisation of national polities and politics. It examines the impact of the presidency on three levels: national administrations; national ministers; and the citizens of the MS. Firstly, based on nearly 100 expert interviews with civil servants from six MS I find that holding the presidency leads to at least temporary Europeanisation of national administrations and an improvement of national-EU policy coordination practices, mostly through a sociological institutionalist perspective: change of attitudes, skill development and networking. Secondly, analysis of a novel quantitative dataset of ministerial attendance at the meetings of the Council of the EU shows that the Council presidency encourages the ministers of the respective MS to attend more frequently, but the effect is temporary, explained by a rationalist logic of consequentiality rather than appropriateness. Thirdly, conducting a Eurobarometer survey data analysis, I find that the Council presidency relates to a minor improvement of knowledge of the EU among the citizens of small EU Member States and those countries that held the Council presidency for the first time. Overall, my findings suggest that the Council presidency presents an opportunity rather than burden for the MS.
Download or read book European Union Council Presidencies written by Ole Elgström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes, analyses, explains and compares the role performance of different presidencies. The expert and international authors ask why member states have different approaches and play the role differently, prioritising different functions and using a variety of strategies to realise their aspirations. The book consists of three parts i) describes the functions of the presidency, ii) compares nine different presidencies and iii) a concluding section comparing media images, and summaries looking at member state characteristics and behaviour.
Download or read book Small States and EU Governance written by S. Bunse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues.
Download or read book The prospect of the EU team presidencies Integrative balancing in the new member states written by Attila Ágh-Judit Kis-Varga (eds) and published by Kossuth Kiadó. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leading the European Union written by Devon Rose Kysor and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unpacking the Influence of the Council Presidency on European Union External Policies written by Bruno Vandecasteele and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special position of the rotating Council Presidency has raised a long-standing debate on the extent to which this function allows a Member State to exert additional influence on European Union decision-making, in particular in external policy. This article argues that a broader and more differentiated study of Presidency influence could further this debate. In doing so, the article analyses the Polish Council Presidency (during the second half of 2011) and its influence on the European Union's Eastern Partnership policies across three dimensions: (i) differences between influence on the agenda and influence on the contents of decisions, (ii) the forums (different levels in the Council and international forums) where the Presidency can exert influence, and (iii) different types of external policies, an area that has received relatively little scholarly attention thus far in the literature on the Presidency. The analysis shows that (i) the Presidency can determine the agenda to a certain extent, but the position of the chair does not allow the incumbent to exert additional influence on the contents of decisions; (ii) most Presidency influence of external policies is observed in the preparatory bodies of the Council, while at the ministerial or international level this influence is much smaller; and (iii) although the Presidency can play a rather prominent role in organizing multilateral events, this rarely amounts to real political influence. In turn, the Presidency's influence is most tangible in specific bilateral dossiers.
Download or read book EU Presidencies between Politics and Administration written by Mads Dagnis Jensen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis after the Lisbon Treaty came into force of the EU Presidency's impact on national administrations in the Member States of Poland, Denmark and Cyprus before, during and after the Presidency. Placing the practical issues facing officials and policy-makers into a "governmentality" framework, it analyses the impact on the daily activities of bureaucrats and ministers. The book utilises comprehensive and novel empirical material including around 100 interviews with key officials, documentary sources and academic literature. It uncovers the kind of negotiations, management and coordination triggered by the immense challenge of presiding over the EU –including being a part of a Trio. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students of political science, European Union studies and public administration, as well as more broadly to Comparative Politics and International Relations. It will also be of interest to officials and policy members in EU Member states approaching the Presidency.
Download or read book Unveiling the Council of the European Union written by D. Naurin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms. This book covers the most contentious areas and important debates in current research.
Download or read book The Federal Vision written by Kalypso Nicolaïdis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for scholars and students of European Union, Political Science, International Law, International Relations, Political Economy, Comparative Federalism, European and American Politics
Download or read book Informal Governance in the European Union written by Mareike Kleine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to supranational actors such as the European Commission. This legalistic view, Mareike Kleine contends, is misleading. More often than not, governments and bureaucrats informally depart from the formal rules and thereby contradict their very purpose. Behind the EU’s front of formal rules lies a thick network of informal governance practices. If not the EU’s rules, what accounts for the high level of economic integration among its members? How does the EU really work? In answering these questions, Kleine proposes a new way of thinking about international organizations. Informal governance affords governments the flexibility to resolve conflicts that adherence to EU rules may generate at the domestic level. By dispersing the costs that integration may impose on individual groups, it allows governments to keep domestic interests aligned in favor of European integration. The combination of formal rules and informal governance therefore sustains a level of cooperation that neither regime alone permits, and it reduces the EU’s democratic deficit by including those interests into deliberations that are most immediately affected by its decisions. In illustrating informal norms and testing how they work, Kleine provides the first systematic analysis, based on new material from national and European archives and other primary data, of the parallel development of the formal rules and informal norms that have governed the EU from the 1958 Treaty of Rome until today.
Download or read book The Presidency of the European Council written by Michelle Shanahan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entrepreneurs of Compromise written by Austė Vaznonytė and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treaty of Lisbon has produced deep changes to the EU institutional structure and its internal balance of powers. It has reshuffled powers between institutional actors and curbed the responsibilities of the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU in fields characterised by ‘high politics’. This paper discusses the institutional framework shaped by the Treaty of Lisbon, and provides an overview of the new, post-Lisbon roles of the rotating Presidency. Against this backdrop, the paper shows that the rotating chair maintains relevant roles in managing the Council agenda and in the legislative process, especially when representing the Council in trilogues. In addition, the paper examines how the rotating Presidencies dealt with crises in the post-Lisbon period. The analysis shows that asymmetric shocks tend to increase general disagreements in the Council, while shocks affecting countries in similar ways allow the Presidency to display effective leadership. These situations of urgency offer small member states the opportunity to take the initiative and engage in policy entrepreneurship, and to shape EU policymaking in ways which would otherwise likely be out of reach. All in all, the rotating Presidency is still considered a rare opportunity for the member states to put forward certain priorities, and it should not be neglected in the post-Lisbon times. Since crisis management is an integral element of almost every Presidency, policy flexibility and sufficient resources should be devoted by national governments to their activities as rotating chairs to act as efficient entrepreneurs of compromise.
Download or read book The global crisis and the Eu responses written by Attila Ágh-Judit Kis-Varga (eds) and published by Kossuth Kiadó. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Council of the European Union written by Martin Westlake and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the Council of the European Union examines the Council's place in the EU's institutional framework, its internal workings and its relationship to the other institutions of the EU. The book is up-to-date to the end of 1994.
Download or read book The Ever changing Union written by Christian Egenhofer and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ever-Changing Union" provides a concise overview of the EU's history, institutional structures and decision-making processes. As such, its aim is not to cover the breadth or complexity of information that can now be found in EU text books; this overview should provide the reader with all the information required to gain access to a complex institutional system that has been changing ever since its creation. In the first section the European integration process is described from its beginnings in the early 1950s to the current ratification problems of the Treaty of Lisbon. A second part presents the EU's main institutions with their distinct features and a third explains how these institutions interact within the European decision-making process as a whole. In addition, the Reader includes an overview of fundamental principles of the European integration process, a comparison between the EU and federalist systems, the basic features of the EU budget and the key innovations to be introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book is written for those with an initial or occasional interest in European policies and politics. More particularly, the authors believe it to be useful for civil servants, diplomats, businesses, NGO representatives as well as students and scholars who encounter the European Union in their work.
Download or read book The Council Presidency in the European Union written by Robert Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent of the Council presidency's political influence is the subject of disagreement among both practitioners and researchers. While some describe the presidency as responsibility without power, others suggest that it provides incumbent states with an opportunity to achieve decision outcomes close to their preferences. This article formulates and tests hypotheses on the conditions under which presidents influence the timing and content of decision outcomes in the legislative arena. Decision outcomes are shown to be significantly more favourable to presidents in the chair at the time of adoption than to other Member States, even after controlling for other factors that influence bargaining success.
