DMEU - 11 exque EU council

the European Council has become increasingly present on the European stage. Why this development for an institution that was supposed to be concerned solely with ‘history-making’? (1p)

Transformation of the EUCO

transformed into a central day to day politics.

• deliberative intergovenrmentalism = consensus dependency

• result of institutional changes and the pressures of crisis

Integration paradox

Pots maastricht era

after MA , the EU enter a phase of integration without supranationalisation

• growing interdependence with the Euro

• BUT resistance to supranationalisation

  • = intergovernmental alternative = instead of the community method, states turned to intensified intergov coordination —> making the EUCO a center of gravity

Crisis management

when there is a crisis = the council is over present

because if the composition = heads of state

Impact on the Institutions balance

• altered the triangle of power

• the euro has become a last resort umpire (arbitre) for unsolvable cases

  • limiting the power of the others institutions

Fabbrini

The poly crisis = intergovernmentalism

• the fhoisft is a respond to the poly crisis Koch required decisions on “ core state power” ( touche a la souverineté ) that only national leader have the authority to take

• EU = monnet reverse = instead of supranational institutions gaining power, the crisis forced a centralization of power in the European council to protect national interest while seeking collective solutions

• The eropean council became the political executive of the union leaving the commission as a technical secretariat

Ferrara and kriesi

• integration doesn’t occur in a permissive consensus but in crisis pressure

• <hen crisis are symmetrical the European council must step in to provide a high level political legitimacy

  • because decisions are so sensible , they require direct involvement of leaders who are accountable to voters ?

Oztas and kreppel

the commission influence as decreased , to profit of the council —> policy congruence

the Euro has files the leadership vacuum to ensure the eu’s agenda aligns with the political reality of the 27 mS

elemenst

1. Euco transformation

2. Integration paradox

   1. interdependence

   2. résistance

   3. intergovernmental

3. crisi management

4. impact on the institutional balance

   1. triangle of power

5. txt Fabrini / ferrara and kriesi / Optas and kreppel