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Technical or political ? The working groups of the EU council of ministers
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This paper examined how members of these entities interact with civil servants in COREPER and ministers, on the one hand, and representatives of the Commission and the European Parliament on the other.Abstract:
The Council is too often depicted as the battleground for intermittent clashes between national ministers. Based upon case studies of legislation produced in five ‘First Pillar’ sectors, the research presented here has explored the submerged, and much larger, part of this institutional ‘iceberg’: Council working groups. It does so by examining how members of these entities interact with civil servants in COREPER and ministers, on the one hand, and representatives of the Commission and the European Parliament, on the other. Contrary to many practitioner or formalist accounts, the principal finding is that working groups do not operate solely on a ‘technical level’. Instead, they are vital arenas through which the ambiguous nature of politics in the European Union heavily influences negotiating processes and legislative outcomes.read more
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The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht
TL;DR: The choice for Europe as mentioned in this paper is the choice of Europe and the choice for the future of the European Union, the Treaties of Rome, 1955-1958 and the Maastricht Treaty, 1988-1991.
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The Council of the European Union
TL;DR: The Council in the EU's institutional framework the Council, members, rules, etc the Presidency COREPER: Council-Commission relationship Council-Parliament relationship internal procedures the General Secretariat other intergovernmental mechanisms Maastricht as discussed by the authors
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The Council of Ministers
TL;DR: In this paper, the Council Secretariat takes turns at the wheel: the Presidency, National Representatives Decide: the Ministers in Council Officials Prepare the Ground: the Preparatory Bodies Bureaucrats Organise and Advise: The CouncilSecretariat Taking Turns at the Wheel: The Presidency.
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“Speaking ‘Europe’: The Politics of Integration Discourse”
TL;DR: The role of language has as yet been largely neglected in studies of European integration, and as mentioned in this paper provides the theoretical groundwork to remedy this gap through discourse analysis, arguing that attempts to capture the EU's nature both in the political and the academic debate themselves take part in the construction of the Europolity.