Chapter 3: Agenda-Shaping in the European Parliament and the European Commission’s right of legislative initiative

Maurer, Andreas; Wolf, Michael

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“…However, EPOIR remain, though their frequency has varied across time, and declined as the formal legislative powers of the EP increased (Maurer 2003; Vavrik 2017). The continued use of EPOIR reflects the desire of the EP to influence the EU's policy agenda (Welle 2015; Maurer and Wolf 2018).…”

Section: The Evolution Of Ep Political Powermentioning

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“…Despite its other acquired powers, many continue to view EPOIR as an important potential tool of agenda setting, noting that they can ‘pave the way for new legislative proposals’ serving as ‘important tools in the early phase of the legislative cycle trying to shape the agenda’ (Welle 2015, p. 13) and as a mechanism for MEPs to show their general interests, their attention to a given issue, or their willingness to shape the policy agenda (Maurer 2003, Maurer and Wolf 2018). Thus, although EPOIR do not result in formal policy proposals that must be addressed, they do provide other actors with information regarding the priorities and preferences of the EP and ostensibly—through them—the concerns of EU citizens.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Ep Political Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, research has demonstrated that both the European Council and the Council have effective tools at their disposal to assist them in their efforts to provide political guidance to the Commission, thus ensuring that their own policy priorities are integrated into the legislative agenda of the EU (Kollman 2003; Bunse 2009; Allerkamp 2010; Reh et al 2013; Alexandrova et al 2016). Given these results, it is logical to expect that the EP not only attempts to shape the legislative agenda in the EU, but that it also has some capacity to be successful (Maurer and Wolf 2018). What remains, however, is a better understanding of when and why the EP is able to influence the EU's policy agenda.…”

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“…As with other actors, the absence of a formal right of initiative does not imply a lack of EP interest in EU policy agenda setting. Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that, like others, the EP is proactive in its efforts to influence the topics selected for EU legislative action, and is able to use its capacity to issue Own Initiative Reports (EPOIR) to do so (Maurer and Wolf 2018; Kreppel and Webb 2019). While EPOIR are formally just expressions of EP policy preferences (many on topics that fall outside of the EU's legislative remit), they are an important tool to publicly signal EP priorities to the Commission and other EU actors.…”

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“…While EPOIR are formally just expressions of EP policy preferences (many on topics that fall outside of the EU's legislative remit), they are an important tool to publicly signal EP priorities to the Commission and other EU actors. Although recent evidence suggests that EPOIR can be effective in this regard (Maurer and Wolf 2018), we still know very little about when they are most likely to have an impact or why. In particular, the impact of the broader institutional environment, characteristics of the key actors involved and the specific attributes of the policy proposed remain largely unstudied.…”

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The European Parliament's role as an informalEUagenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports

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This article examines the conditions under which the European Parliament (EP) effectively exercises its informal agenda setting powers to directly influence the content of the European Union's policy agenda through the use of ‘own initiative reports’ or EPOIR. We test three models of EPOIR influence (salience, linkage and ideology) utilizing a newly created dataset of all substantive references to EPOIR within Commission pre‐legislative communications and legislative proposals produced between 2000 and 2017. These references serve as the dependent variable in our analysis, which seeks to identify the traits of EPOIR that increase their likelihood of exerting agenda influence. Our findings suggest not only that EPOIR can and do help to shape the EU policy agenda, but that salience and inter‐institutional linkage are the most effective attributes in explaining when this type of EP agenda setting effort via EPOIR is most likely to be successful.

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Section: Evaluating Informal Agenda Settingmentioning

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The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing

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Trondal²

2020

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This study contributes to the literature on informal governance by examining politics of informal agenda-setting in the European Commission. As a 'hard case', the paper examines how the European Commission exceeds limited legal Treaty provisions in foreign and security policy (CFSP). This system, where the Commission has come to play a more prominent role than stipulated in the treaties, is interpreted as a normalization of CFSP governance. Three complementary propositions on the informal agenda-setting role of the Commission are developed: agenda leadership (#1), coalition-building (#2), and community framing (#3). To illuminate these propositions, we examine their relevance across three empirical cases: (i) EU's Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS), (ii) EU's Arctic policies, and (iii) EU's naval mission against human smuggling in the Mediterranean, EU Sophia. These cases suggest that informal agenda governance by the European Commission is mainly shaped by agenda leadership in combination with EU-level coalition-building, but also strengthened by community framing.

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Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape

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2021

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In the European Union (EU), agenda setting is formally centralized at the European Commission. During the last decade since the Lisbon Treaty, however, this agenda‐setting monopoly was challenged by other institutions against the backdrop of the Treaty change, intergovernmental crisis management, politicization, and more informal legislative bargaining. This symposium therefore surveys the emerging agenda‐setting powers of the EU's other main institutional actors in their relation to the Commission. The introduction provides a conceptual framework, distinguishing between procedural and discursive agenda‐setting power, as well as gatekeeping power and agenda leadership. Based on this typology, we argue that not only the European Council (agenda leadership) but even the Court of Justice of the EU (procedural agenda setting) and the European Parliament (discursive agenda setting) gained more influence on policy decisions through their informal agenda‐setting activities. The landscape has thus become variegated, and the Commission, although remaining center stage, now depends more strongly on interinstitutional alliances.

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Chapter 3: Agenda-Shaping in the European Parliament and the European Commission’s right of legislative initiative

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The European Parliament's role as an informalEUagenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports

The European Parliament's role as an informalEUagenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports

The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing

Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape

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