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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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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 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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Playing the Brussels game: Strategic socialisation in the CFSP Council Working Groups

Juncos, Ana E.; Pomorska, Karolina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 09

consensus-building practice. Compliance with these rules stems from strategic calculations based on legitimacy concerns and the …

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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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EU law 'transformed'? Evaluating accountability and subsidiarity in the 'streamlined' OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection

Dawson, Mark - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

From initially defining new governance processes as external to 'traditional' forms of EU law, a number of academic scholars have begun to argue that methods like the OMC can be seen as indicative of a broader 'transformation' of European law-making. The transformation thesis relies on seeing...

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