The European Commission and the European Council: Coordinated Agenda setting in European energy policy

Thaler, Philipp

doi:10.1080/07036337.2016.1178252

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“…Overall competences remain shared with the Member States (Article 4 TFEU), leading to parallel governance arrangements (Buchan 2015). Although dedicated attempts to facilitate coordination exist (Thaler 2016), fragmentation is the main challenge for European energy governance.…”

Section: European External Energy Policy: Incomplete Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arguably these concerns countered supranational ambitions in the energy field. While the past two decades witnessed a gradual increase of Commission authority in governing the internal energy market (Goldthau and Sitter 2015a;Thaler 2016), its influence regarding energy security and diplomacy remained limited until the late 2000s (Herranz-Surrallés 2016: 1387).…”

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Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

Thaler

Pakalkaité²

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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Member States have retained core competences in external energy policy since the beginning of European integration. Even the new 'energy chapter' in the Lisbon Treaty safeguards national prerogatives. Contrasting this trend, we show that throughout the past decade this national stronghold has been eroding and replaced by supranational oversight. Reviewing energy-related negotiations of Poland and Lithuania with Russia and new regulation on intergovernmental agreements, we demonstrate how the Commission gained control over Member States' external energy relations. We explain the expansion of supranational authority with spillover pressures equipping the Commission with new procedural prerogatives. Central to this development was the institutionalisation a novel supranational instrument we call 'real-time compliance'. The term denotes the prompt application of soft and coercive means, ensuring compliance of energy agreements between Member States and third countries with EU rules.This expansion of supranational powers through procedural competences has implications for debates on European energy policy and European integration.

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Section: European External Energy Policy: Incomplete Integrationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

Thaler

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2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…2. So far, new intergovernmentalism has been used to study developments in the economic and monetary union (Howarth and Quaglia 2015), foreign, security and defence policies (Smith 2015;Amadio Viceré 2016), energy policy (Thaler 2016) and justice and home affairs (Wolff 2015). But being a novel theoretical undertaking, scholars still need to overcome the lack of reflection of its 'theoretical propositions at the policy level' (Schimmelfennig 2015a, 728), particularly in 'new areas of activity' such as external action (Bickerton, Hodson, and Puetter 2015a).…”

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Autonomy in intergovernmentalism: the role ofde novobodies in external action during the making of the EU Global Strategy

Morillas

2019

Journal of European Integration

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Is the new intergovernmentalism well positioned to explain the inter-institutional dynamics of EU external action, as reflected by the policy-making process of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS)? This article argues that, despite the divisive and crisis-ridden dynamics in European integration and external action, de novo bodies such as the HR/VP and the EEAS have increased their autonomy in the traditionally intergovernmental EU foreign and security policies. By tracing the making of the EUGS through 39 interviews with officials from EU institutions and member states, this article argues that the increased autonomy of the HR/VP and the EEAS in external action has also facilitated the parallel convergence of initiatives in security and defence. The value of the EUGS should thus be found in the ad intra integration dynamics it has generated; particularly when, ad extra, it embodies a more troubled environment for EU external action.

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“…This is due to an increasingly cooperative working relationship with the European Council (achieved through both formal and informal procedures), as well as to the EC's technical expertise, on which the member states rely. For instance, the Commission's policy goals are often embedded in the European Council conclusions that address energy policy matters (Thaler 2016).…”

Section: European Commissionmentioning

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Utilization of scenarios in European electricity policy

Scheibe

2018

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The European Commission and the European Council: Coordinated Agenda setting in European energy policy

Cited by 30 publications

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Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

Governance through real-time compliance: the supranationalisation of European external energy policy

Autonomy in intergovernmentalism: the role ofde novobodies in external action during the making of the EU Global Strategy

Utilization of scenarios in European electricity policy

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