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Wessels, Michael

doi:10.1080/02560046.2016.1269817

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“…The rules on public access to Council documents ‘apply mutatis mutandis to European Council documents’ but it is specifically stated that the deliberations of the European Council are, as a rule, covered by the obligation of professional secrecy. Given that the Council General Secretariat for now manages the public access provisions for the European Council as well, it can be expected that similar rationales for secrecy will prevail in that context. That is likely to include a heavy reliance on the process rationale for secrecy – that publicity prior to decision‐making would hinder the effectiveness and the ability of the (Prime‐) Ministers to take decisions.…”

Section: Evolving Working Practices Of Eu Executive Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging Executive Dominance inEuropean Democracy

Curtin¹

2014

Modern Law Review

115

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Executive dominance in the contemporary EU is part of a wider migration of executive power towards types of decision making that eschew electoral accountability and popular democratic control. This democratic gap is fed by far-going secrecy arrangements and practices exercised in a concerted fashion by the various executive actors at different levels of governance and resulting in the blacking out of crucial information and documents -even for parliaments. Beyond a deconstruction exercise on the nature and location of EU executive power and secretive working practices, this article focuses on the challenges facing parliaments in particular. It seeks to reconstruct a more pro-active and networked role of parliaments -both national and European -as countervailing power. In this vision parliaments must assert themselves in a manner that is true to their role in the political system and that is not dictated by government at any level.

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Section: Evolving Working Practices Of Eu Executive Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%