The culture of trilogues

Roederer-Rynning, Christilla; Greenwood, Justin

doi:10.1080/13501763.2014.992934

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“…Several empirical studies did not find evidence for a strengthening of the relais actors (Häge and Naurin, ; Judge and Earnshaw, ; Rasmussen and Reh, ). Moreover, due to multiple reforms of the EP's rules of procedures, the strength of the rapporteurs has been gradually decreased, for instance by enlarging the EP negotiating team (Héritier and Reh, ; Judge and Earnshaw, ; Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood, ). Yet these reforms have not led to uniform practices across various EP committees (Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood, 2016).…”

Section: Early Agreements and Trilogues In Legislative Policy‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We treat the MSR policy‐making process as a typical case, which helps us ‘to understand, illustrate, and highlight what is typical and normal’ in legislative policy‐making processes on early agreements in the EU (Patton, , p. 284). We consider the MSR case as typical because it corresponds to the key characteristics of trilogue negotiations as described by Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood (): conducted on the basis of mandates from both institutions, encompassing several parallel intra‐ and inter‐institutional contacts, and with a crucial role for agents in conciliating the initially diverging positions of the co‐legislators. Yet, whereas the case is particularly typical for the Council side (where COREPER I is in charge of a vast majority of OLP files), the scope of generalizability for the EP side is probably limited to policy‐making processes within the ENVI committee, as the different committees in the EP have developed their own modus operandi to conduct trilogue negotiations (Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood, ).…”

Section: Negotiating the Market Stability Reserve Decision: Settmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Delreux

Laloux

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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Applying a principal-agent perspective on trilogue negotiations, this article examines how the rapporteur and the Presidency, as agents of respectively the European Parliament and the Council, are able to reach a deal with their fellow agent while avoiding an involuntary defection among their principals. Despite these intra-and inter-institutional constraints, early agreements can be concluded because agents execute two parallel tasks on behalf of their principals: representing them interinstitutionally and acting as the deal-facilitator intra-institutionally. We identify three ways in which the agents can combine these two acts of delegation and conclude an early agreement: (1) creating a tied-hand situation for themselves; (2) affecting the intra-institutional coalition formation by bringing in allies from the other institution; and (3) actively searching for signals from the principals and the fellow agent on the zone of possible agreement. We illustrate these dynamics through a case study of the policy-making process on the 2015 Decision on the Market Stability Reserve.

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Section: Early Agreements and Trilogues In Legislative Policy‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Negotiating the Market Stability Reserve Decision: Settmentioning

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Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Delreux

Laloux

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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“…After a compromise has been found, public meetings of the EP and the Council are only used for rubberstamping. The lack of public accountability of this decision-making process has often been lamented (He´ritier and Reh, 2012;Lord, 2013;Stie, 2010), even though both the Council and, increasingly, the EP have internal accountability mechanisms in place to keep their chief negotiators in check (Roederer-Rynning and Greenwood, 2015). The extension of co-decision may thus formally improve accountability towards the EP and enhance its role as an accountability forum when overseeing the implementation of EU law, but these gains may be reduced by the informal procedures that are applied in the legislative process.…”

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Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union

Brandsma

Heidbreder

Mastenbroek

2016

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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This special issue takes stock of recent post-Lisbon additions to the European Union's accountability toolkit. It provides indications that older decision-making tools tend to be more accountable than newer ones, and that, in some areas, decision-making is shifting towards less accountable arenas. This introductory article reviews the debate on the gradual evolution of the European Union's accountability system and introduces key aspects of the post-Lisbon era that can be expected to affect accountability in the European Union, and that have been overlooked by the literature thus far: delegated acts, economic governance and regulatory evaluations. The contributions to this special issue address each of these domains in detail and highlight the degree to which accountability has been enhanced. A final contribution shows how these arrangements fit into the wider landscape of already-existing European Union accountabilities and how this landscape has developed over time. Points for practitionersThere is an apparent link between the relative novelty of the institutional setting in which a governance system is embedded and its accountability. Settings that include a strong role for the European Commission tend to be the most accountable ones, while those that rely mostly on intergovernmental logics, including those that have been created outside the Treaty framework, come with significant gaps.

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“…They even see the tacit collaboration of the EP in undermining co-decision, for example, by abandoning it so long as they increased their own importance via a more privileged role in inter-institutional negotiation (Bickerton et al, 2015;Reh et al, 2011). But even as this speaks to the weakening of co-decision, it provides evidence for 'new' parliamentarism, through the strengthening of the EP in new ways through negotiation with intergovernmental political actors through its increasing influence in 'trilogues' (Roederer-Rynning and Greenwood, 2015).…”

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Rethinking EU Governance: From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Approaches to Who Steers Integration^*

Schmidt

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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EU scholars have long been divided on the main drivers of European integration. The original approaches were at odds on whether EU level intergovernmental actors or supranational actors were better able to exercise coercive or institutional power to pursue their interests, with Andrew Moravcsik's liberal intergovernmentalism serving as a baseline for one side of those debates. Newer approaches are similarly divided, but see power in terms of ideational innovation and consensus‐focused deliberation. The one thing old and new approaches have in common is that they ignore the parliamentarists, new and old. What all sides to the debates have failed to recognize is the reality of a ‘new’ EU governance of more politically charged dynamics among all three main EU actors exercising different kinds of power. This has roots not only in the national level's increasing ‘politics against policy’ and its bottom up effects on the EU level. It also stems from EU institutional interactions at the top, and its ‘policy with politics’.

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The culture of trilogues

Cited by 79 publications

References 23 publications

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union

Rethinking EU Governance: From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Approaches to Who Steers Integration^*

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The culture of trilogues

Cited by 79 publications

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Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union

Rethinking EU Governance: From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Approaches to Who Steers Integration*

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