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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

legislation and seen as improving accountability of the whole Community system.This paper wants to come in here and probe into the … question whether the latest Decision on Comitology actually does alleviate the current accountability deficits of comitology. …

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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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Accountability deficits in European ‘Comitology’ decision-making

Brandsma, Gijs Jan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 05

the validity of this claim. After briefly discussing the meaning and aims of accountability, it is discussed where the … actual accountability problems can be expected. Institutionally, one may expect them between the committees and the … fully remedy accountability problems emerging there. Individually, one may expect accountability problems in the delegation …

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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

Council Presidency. Nonetheless, despite the lack of a formal accountability arrangement, the European Council Presidency is …

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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

, and the participation of 'new' constitutional actors, can take the place of traditional forms of legal accountability and … the 'transformation' idea. While the OMC as it stands indicates elements of a more 'dynamic' form of accountability and … doubt on its suitability as a replacement for traditional legal accountability mechanisms. As much as 'transformation' may …

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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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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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Politics versus Science in the Making of a New Regulatory Regime for Food in Europe

Buonanno, Laurie; Zablotney, Sharon; Keefer, Richard - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 10

The European Union's new food regulatory regime can be understood as a political, rather than science-based solution to the problem of recurrent food crises that have threatened the foundations of the single market. The failure of first, mutual trust and subsequently, its remedy, comitology, led...

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The "Legislative Backbone" keeping the Institution upright? The Role of European Parliament Committees in the EU Policy-Making Process

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 08

question of whether EP committees help increase the EPs accountability to EU citizens. …

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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

. Finally, introducing the parliamentary model, this paper outlines a set of mechanisms to increase the accountability of a …

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