The European Council:
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| Beschreibung: | XXIII, 288 Seiten Diagramme |
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Detailed Contents vii
List of Boxes, Figures, Images and Tables xv
List of abbreviations xvii
Preface: The Fascination and Frustration of Studying
a Key Institution xix
Part I: The European Council: Overview and History 1
1 Introduction: The Many Faces of the European Council 3
2 Multiple Approaches for Understanding a Contested
Institution: Three Models 11
3 Pre-History: The Birth of Institutionalised Summitry 21
4 History: Generations of Leaders and the Institutional
Trajectory 43
Part II: The Role of the European Council within the EU
Architecture 67
5 Political and Procedural Leadership: General
Functions and Specific Powers 69
6 Towards a New Institutional Balance? Trends in
Inter-Institutional Relations 85
Part III: Inside the European Council: The Dynamics of
Decision-Making 107
7 The Presidency: Charismatic Master or Facilitating
Manager? 109
8 Rules for Organisation: The Search for an Optimal
Institutional Arrangement 123
9 Decision-Making: The Ways to Consensus Formation 132
10 Decision-Making: The Power Dimension 145
V
viii Detailed Contents
The increasing challenges of interdependence 25
A blocking inertia in the community architecture 26
Establishment: the making of a new institution 27
Summits in the early 1960s: The legacy of failures 27
The 1969 summit in The Hague: paving the way
for a new era 29
The summits of the early 1970s: widely varying
experiences 32
The debate about institutional shape: the
convergence of concepts 34
New leaders with shared experiences and views 36
Concluding the de-blocking package 37
The founding text: an ambiguous formula 39
Conclusion: an enabling compromise 41
4 History: Generations of Leaders and the Institutional
Trajectory 43
Five generations of leaders 43
The legacy of the founding generation: setting examples 44
The cGeneration of 1989*: history-making agreements 45
The‘New Europe’generation 53
The crises generation 56
The post (?)-crisis generation 58
The institutional trajectory of the European Council:
incremental evolution to full treaty status 59
Semi-official proposals — from the Tindemans Report
via the Solemn Declaration to the EP’s draft treaty 59
Insertion into primary law: from the Single European
Act via the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice 61
Via the constitutional convention to the Treaties of
Lisbon and beyond 63
Conclusion: patterns of continuity 65
Part II: The Role of the European Council within the EU
Architecture 67
5 Political and Procedural Leadership: General Functions
and Specific Powers 69
Functions in the EU’s policy cycle 69
Preparation: from early warning to pre-legislative
and pre-constitutional guidelines 69
Detailed Contents ix
Decision-making: from de facto to de jure
decisions 72
Implementation and surveillance: from monitoring
to mediating 74
Elective functions: the power as an electoral body 75
Legal provisions and real decisions 76
The appointment of the President of the Commission 79
Institutional and procedural arrangements: the
power of incremental engineering 80
Arrangements for the EP 81
Arrangements for the Council 81
Arrangements for the Commission 82
Further organisational adaptions 82
Procedures for suspension and withdrawal: the
power of exclusion 83
Conclusion: moving to the institutional apex 84
6 Towards a New Institutional Balance? Trends in
Inter-Institutional Relations 85
Trends in procedural provisions: the extension
of the Community method 86
The European Parliament: rival and partner 87
Separation of procedures 88
Dialogue 89
Sharing responsibilities 90
Indirect rivalry 91
Lack of trust in the daily work 92
The Council: in the shadow of political hierarchy 92
Types of relationship 93
Impacts on the functioning of the Council 94
The Commission: more than a secretariat? 95
Separation of procedures 95
The Commission as agent 96
The Commission as hidden principal 97
The actual role(s) of the Commission President 98
A mixed record 100
The Court: shaping a new constitutional system of
checks and balances 101
New forms of legal relations 102
Forms of (indirect) cooperation 102
Potential rivalry 104
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The European Central Bank: new forms of dialogue 104
Conclusion: shifts towards a complex system of joint
responsibilities 105
Part III: Inside the European Council: The Dynamics
of Decision-Making 107
7 The Presidency: Charismatic Master or Facilitating
Manager? 109
The rotating Presidency: an exclusive role with weaknesses 110
The creation of the permanent Presidency 112
The debate about functions and form: pros and cons
of a permanent President 113
The political controversy: small Member States
against large 114
Election of the president 116
The election rules: constraints for ambitious Presidents 116
The election and re-election of Van Rompuy: In search
of a low profile 118
The role profile of and by Van Rompuy 120
Conclusion: matching treaty logic with personal
characteristics 121
8 Rules for Organisation: The Search for an Optimal
Institutional Arrangement 123
Membership: the search for exclusivity
and confidentiality 123
The club doctrine: no civil servants 126
Serving the European Council: the administrative
infrastructure 128
Other organisational issues 129
Venue 129
Frequency and length 130
Other issues 131
Conclusion: satisfactory arrangements 131
9 Decision-Making: The Ways to Consensus
Formation 132
Preparation: channelling demands and interests 132
Agenda setting 133
Drafting (Presidency) conclusions 135
Detailed Contents xi
Moving to consensus: tools for negotiating agreements 136
Formal voting rules 137
The facilitating role of the president 138
The need for comprehensive and concrete
package deals 139
The time factor 141
Implementation: the tasks of the President 142
Reporting 142
Monitoring own agreements 143
Conclusion: via compromises to complex agreements 144
10 Decision-Making: The Power Dimension 145
Leaders and followers: voice opportunity for the smaller
Member States 145
The Franco-German leadership: a benevolent
hegemony? 149
Cleavages inside the European Council: no permanent
coalitions 151
Party affiliations 152
Attitudes towards integration 153
Advocacy coalitions for specific agenda items 153
The political culture of the group: an esprit de corps? 154
Features of collegiality 154
Limits of collegiality 157
Conclusion: no simple formula for successful
decision-making 158
Part IV: Activities, Agreements and Acts 159
11 Deepening: The Constitutional Architect 161
Treaty revisions: main agreements 163
Preparation: convening an intergovernmental
conference 165
Special preparatory groups 166
Setting the agenda 167
Negotiating: steering and concluding intergovernmental
conferences 168
Implementation: monitoring and mediating the
ratification process 169
The treaty-maker at work: the constitutional decade 169
The making of the convention 171
xii Detailed Contents
After the Constitutional Treaty: the road to the
Lisbon Treaty 172
The treaty-making rules of the Lisbon TEU; reinforcing
the role as constitutional architect 174
The ordinary revision procedure 174
The simplified revision procedures 175
Conclusion: ambitious and ambiguous leadership
in transforming the EU polity 176
12 Widening: The Master of Enlargement 178
Accessions: main agreements 178
Accessions before 1989 179
Accessions after 1989 180
Accessions after 2007 182
The European Council in the accession procedure 183
Preparation: framing the enlargement doctrine
and opening the negotiations 183
Steering and concluding accession negotiations 184
The follow up: ratifying the accession agreements
and renegotiations 185
Conclusion: a key role in widening 186
13 Economic Governance: Towards a ‘gouvernement
economique ? 187
Creating and adapting the Economic and Monetary
Union: main agreements 189
Setting and reviewing guidelines for hard
and soft coordination 192
Managing the economic and financial crisis:
a reinforced leadership role in a turbulent eurozone 194
Shaping Community policies: the internal market
and beyond 198
Making and using the financial provisions: the power
of the purse 200
Financial provisions: main agreements 200
Budgetary negotiations within the European
Council 203
At the institutional centre of the multi-pillar architecture:
treaty rules and actual practices 204
Variations in the European CounciVs involvement 204
Euro Summits 205
Detailed Contents xiii
Conclusion: towards a crisis-driven 6 Gouvernement
Economique’ 207
The evolving role of the European Council 207
Revisiting the European Council s models 208
14 External Action: In Search of a Coherent and Effective
Global Role 210
Creating and adapting the Common Foreign and Security
Policy: main agreements 211
The Lisbon institutional arrangement: at the top of a
two-pillar architecture 213
The collective voice of a global actor: positions
and doctrines 216
Adopting declarations on world politics 216
Formulating doctrines and strategies 219
hooking at the record 219
The face of a global actor: representation by the
Union’s leaders 220
Crisis management: multiple efforts with
limited impact 222
Conclusion: limits to the European Council’s power 223
15 The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice:
Pre-Constitutional and Pre-Legislative Functions 227
Creating and adapting the area of freedom, security
and justice: main agreements 228
Setting and reviewing pre-legislative guidelines 231
The Lisbon institutional arrangements: a limited but
significant role 234
Conclusion: patterns of a fusion engine 235
Part V: Conclusions and Perspectives: A Key Institution’s
Rise and Decline? 237
16 The European Council: Looking Back to Look
Forward 2^9
Revisiting the European Council’s performance: key
features and patterns 240
Transforming the multi-level EU politics 240
Patterns of consensus formation 242
Reviewing the institutional models 243
xiv Detailed Contents
Long-term perspectives: fundamental institutional roles 243
Guardian of the sovereign nation state: managing
a disintegration process 244
Federator: upgrading integration 246
The fusion engine: changing the nature of the
nation state 248
Conclusion: an open finaiké 250
Appendix: Sources 252
Bibliography 254
Index 275
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