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Public Accountability in the European Union: Is the European Parliament able to hold the European Council accountable?

van de Steeg, Marianne - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 08

The European Council occupies a central role in European politics. Yet it is not officially accountable to any public or parliamentary body for the decisions it makes on behalf of European citizens. National parliaments are only entitled to exert control over their own Heads of Government or...

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The Open Method of Coordination: Underconceptualisation, overdetermination, de-politicisation and beyond

Kröger, Sandra - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

This introduction provides a brief overview of the existing OMC literature with regard to the introduction of the OMC, its theoretical conceptualisation of effectiveness and legitimacy and related empirical findings. The main part of the introduction, however, focuses on chosen shortcomings of...

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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...

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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. After presenting a list of normative criteria, relevant parts of the Constitutional Treaty are summarised and evaluated. It is concluded that the Constitutional Treaty's...

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Modes of Regulation in the Governance of the European Union: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation

Knill, Christoph; Lenschow, Andrea - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 02

The European Union is becoming a regulatory state with many faces. Classical top-down regulatory policy is joined by less authoritative, less interventionist and more participatory regulatory forms. At least in part, these regulatory experiments are intended to improve the quality of governing...

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The Treaty of Amsterdam: Towards a New Institutional Balance

Nentwich, Michael; Falkner, Gerda - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 08

This paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum of envisaged changes will considerably alter the institutional balance between the three main actors,...

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Parliamentary participation in EU affairs in Austria, Finland and Sweden: Newcomers with different approaches

Hegeland, Hans; Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 07

The national parliaments in Austria, Finland, and Sweden faced similar challenges as regards to parliamentary participation in EU affairs when their countries became EU members in 1995. They chose different institutional frameworks, where in Austria the respective legal provisions were...

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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...

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Behind the Copenhagen façade. The meaning and structure of the Copenhagen political criterion of democracy and the rule of law

Kochenov, Dimitry - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

The paper makes an attempt to map the Copenhagen criterion of democracy and the rule of law, one of the main … more than ten years ago, at the time of introduction of the criterion. How should democracy and rule of law be interpreted … by the conditionality policy applied by the Union. The paper concludes that the assessment of democracy and the rule of …

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Public access to community documents: a fundamental human right?

Davis, Roy W. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 07

There is a marked difference between the culture of open government in some Member States, particularly Sweden, and the culture of secrecy in Britain. Recent calls for a uniform interpretation of the law regarding public access to documents held by the Community Institutions seem to suggest that...

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