FOUILLEUX, Eve; DE MAILLARD, Jacques; SMITH, Andy

doi:10.1080/13501760500160102

Métadonnées

Afficher la notice complète

Licence d’utilisation du document

FOUILLEUX, Eve

DE MAILLARD, Jacques
Centre de recherche sur l'administration, la ville et le territoire [CERAT]

SMITH, Andy
CERVL - Pouvoir, Action publique, Territoire
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques [FNSP]

Langue

Article de revue

Ce document a été publié dans

Journal of European Public Policy. 2005-08, vol. 12, n° 4, p. 609-623

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Résumé en anglais

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.< Réduire

Mots clés en anglais

European Parliament

Council of Ministers

COREPER

Commission

politicization

working groups

Métadonnées

Licence d’utilisation du document

Technical or political? The working groups of the EU Council of Ministers

Langue

Ce document a été publié dans

Résumé en anglais

Mots clés en anglais

DOI

Origine

Unités de recherche