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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...

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Equal Opportunities between Men and Women and Gender Mainstreaming under the European Employment Strategy (EES) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – A New Policy Approach to...

Braams, Beate - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 12

The aim of this article is to analyse the development of the concepts of equal opportunities between men and women and gender mainstreaming with regard to a new policy approach taken outside the traditional community method and to raise the question to what extent these policy instruments can be...

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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament

Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

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Will the Constitutional Treaty Contribute to the Legitimacy of the European Union?

Abromeit, Heidrun; Wolf, Sebastian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 08

The article explores whether the Constitutional Treaty may provide more legitimacy for governance in the European Union … on the use of Union power are suboptimal; the EU's weak 'input legitimacy' is not strengthened. On the other side, the … enhanced legitimacy, the overall picture, albeit somewhat daunting, is not altogether bleak. …

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The European Parliaments Political Legitimacy and the Commissions Misleading Management: Towards a Parliamentarian European Union?

Muntean, Andrei M. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 05

This paper studies the basic characteristics of the political legitimacy of the European Parliament (EP) within the … supranational political system of the European Union (EU) and argues that an increase in the political legitimacy of the EP might … provide a solution to the legitimacy problem at the EU level of supranational governance. The case study of misleading …

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The Constitution Debate

Schneider, Heinrich - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 03

The paper deals with certain questions and problems of the constitutionalization of the European Union which did not receive very much attention from the Convention on the Future of Europe and from the observers of that Conventions work, but which, nevertheless, may be relevant whenever the...

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Sovereignty in Conflict

Besson, Samantha - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 09

risks of erosion implied by constitutional pluralism, while also enhancing the legitimacy of the European polity. This can …

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Independent and Accountable Central Banks and the European Central Bank

Sousa, Pedro A. B. de - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07

This paper begins with the concept of central bank independence and focuses its argument around one of its major drawbacks the potential absence of accountability by the monetary authority. Then, beyond defining an alternative legal central bank independence index, we analyse the current...

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Understanding the Role of Bureaucracy in the European Security and Defence Policy: The State of the Art

Vanhoonacker, Sophie; Dijkstra, Hylke; Heidi, Maurer - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

The establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999 has led to the creation of a whole range of bureaucratic bodies in Brussels and the national capitals. These bodies support the crisis management operations of the European Union. This review article presents the state...

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Decision-making Void of Democratic Qualities? An Evaluation of the EU’s Second Pillar Decision-making Procedure

Stie, Anne Elizabeth - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the …

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