The European Council and the Council

Puetter, Uwe

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“…(Bowles, 2011) With the outbreak of the eurocrisis in 2009, key reforms of the EU's economic governance were pursued through intergovernmental agreements outside the EU law framework (e.g. the European Stability Mechanism) with a very active involvement of the European Council (Puetter, 2014). Yet, following Lisbon, crucial legislation to reform the SGP had to be approved under the OLP.…”

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The European Parliament and economic governance: explaining a case of limited influence

Bressanelli

Chelotti

2018

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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acting [together] in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, may adopt detailed rules for the multilateral surveillance procedure'. With the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, the EP made immediate use of its new powers. The reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) was negotiated under the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) and, between September 2010 and February 2013, the EP and the Council established new rules for budgetary surveillance and macroeconomic coordination. With the approval of the two legislative packages known as the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack, for the first time the EP had the opportunity to shape the rules of the EMU.The literature has provided very different assessments of the role of the EP in the reform of the EMU. On the one hand, the EP has traditionally not shied away from using its powers as a colegislator (Corbett et al., 2016); with its new legislative powers, several scholars observed that the EP's impact has indeed been significant (Fasone, 2013;Héritier and Schoeller, 2015;Laffan and Schlosser, 2016). Even advocates of the 'new intergovernmentalism' recognise that the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack are an exception to their story (Fabbrini, 2013). On the other hand, other scholars noted that the EP was not very successful in pushing its preferences through, particularly on economic issues (Bressanelli and Chelotti, 2016;O'Keeffe, Salines and Wieczorek, 2016).This article presents an in-depth study of the influence of the EP in the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack.It has both descriptive and explanatory purposes. Descriptively, it aims to provide a systematic map of the negotiations focusing on the key controversies -i.e. important issues where the actors have different positions (Thomson, 2011, p. 29). To assess the EP's influence, we compare its position before starting the negotiations with the Council to the initial legislative proposals and the final legislative output. i This is complemented by an account of the genesis of the two packages. We anticipate here that the EP's influence has been modest at best. In the second part of the paper, we 2 explain this puzzling finding. Relying on rational and sociological institutionalism, we show that the more favourable BATNA of the Council could explain the outcome of the Two-Pack, and a norm of responsibility triggered by the crisis could account for the limited impact of the EP on the Six-Pack. Yet, we are not fully satisfied by the extant explanations, and advance a new, additional hypothesis. We suggest that in policy areas close to 'core state powers' (Genschel and Jachtenfuchs, 2013), like budgetary surveillance, the Member States still play a primary role, and the EP finds itself acting within the boundaries that they define. Our policy-based explanation contends that the EMU -and, possibly, other policies close to core state powers -have their own dynamics, where the Member States are still the 'masters', and the EP has a more subordinate position. While we do not completely dismiss the importance of the f...

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The European Parliament and economic governance: explaining a case of limited influence

Bressanelli

Chelotti

2018

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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“…This critique is entirely based on the JCMS article, not on the authors' forthcoming book(Bickerton et al forthcoming) or on Uwe Puetter's recently published book(Puetter 2014). I cite the 'early view' version.2 Moravcsik's term.…”

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What's the News in ‘New Intergovernmentalism'? A Critique of Bickerton, Hodson and Puetter

Schimmelfennig

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…As the EU's most intergovernmental executive institution, the European Council has from the outset operated in a relatively informal and secluded manner (Puetter 2014). At the same time, today it forms the pinnacle of EU decision-making in the perception of media and the public (Cornia, lönnendonker, and Nitz 2008).…”

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“…In this article, we explore to what extent the European Council and Council's tendency towards opaque decision-making, and the relative success of the plea for a 'space to think' in spite of external pressures for more transparency, adhere to some of the central postulates of what we refer to as the new intergovernmental theories -the new intergovernmentalism and the intergovernmental union, respectively (see the introductory article of this special issue; Bickerton, Hodson, andPuetter 2014, 2015;Fabbrini 2015;Puetter 2014). In this context, it is important to note that this article specifically analyses the question of transparency in light of the conceptual frameworks of the new intergovernmental theories and is not aimed at providing a full assessment of all of their core assumptions.…”

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‘Integration without transparency’? Reliance on the space to think in the European Council and Council

Hillebrandt

Novak

2016

Journal of European Integration

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The European Council and the Council

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The European Parliament and economic governance: explaining a case of limited influence

The European Parliament and economic governance: explaining a case of limited influence

What's the News in ‘New Intergovernmentalism'? A Critique of Bickerton, Hodson and Puetter

‘Integration without transparency’? Reliance on the space to think in the European Council and Council

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