What characterizes the EU today is that it is not only a multi-level governance system, but also a multi-context system. The making of Europe does not just take place on different levels within the European political framework, executed and fostered by different groups of actors or institutions....

Together with a series of related ECJ cases (Viking, Rüffert), the Laval case became famous as a new display of the struggle between economic freedoms and social rights in the EU. But the European controversy is only one part of the story. Focusing on the Laval case, this article goes back to...

In this paper, we use data on roll-call votes by MEP’s in the five elected EuropeanParliaments (1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999) to evaluate the likely impact of current proposalsin the Convention on the Future of Europe for the appointment of the European executive. Wefind (a) that the different...

Le point de départ du présent essai est l’hypothèse selon laquelle les efforts entreprispour combler le déficit démocratique de l’Europe devront aussi affronter les problèmessociaux crées par le processus d’intégration. Cela constitue un sérieux défi, lequelcomporte de nouvelles...

European public policy has succeeded in its economic goals of integrating theinternal market and creating the monetary union. But it is now confronted with criticalchallenges which cannot be effectively resolved within the Union’s present governingmodes. While these governing modes differ from...

Le débat qui a agité la France au printemps 2005 a confirmé qu’en politique, les mots ont leurimportance. En qualifiant abusivement le nouveau traité de « constitution », c’est-à-dire en luiaccordant une valeur symbolique fortement supérieure à son contenu réel, les...

An impressive number of transnational committees populates theEU institutional system. Their statutes and internal regulations arealmost all unpublished, their composition and agendas are largelyunknown, their meetings inaccessible. Nevertheless, this almostimpenetrable «jungle» is actually...