The Difficulties of Eu Governance: What Way Forward for the Eu Institutions?

ISBN-13: 9783631503010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 174 str.

Fröhlich, Stefan

Opis

The book provides an account of the EU s institutional evolution and the current reform debate. It identifies the challenges in view of imminent enlargement and the launch of the draft Constitution by the Convention on the Future of Europe. Special attention is given to the institutional issues involved in the current round of treaty reform. In light of the Convention s proposals the author concludes that the idea of a dramatic overhaul of the EU system of governance is not realistic. In the years to come it is quite unlikely that the Council machinery could leave all executive functions to the Commission and become only a legislative body a second house to the present European Parliament. Rather the current tendencies at the European level suggest that there are valid reasons why the Council and notably the European Council could perform the role of a European government."

Spis treści

Contents: Evolution of EU governance - Political system of the EU -Reform of EU institutions - relationship between European Council and Commission - Co-ordination of the Council's work - Accountability through parliamentary involvement.

O autorze

The Author: Stefan Fröhlich, born 1958 in Bonn. Studies of Political Sciences, English and Spanish in Bonn, Paris, Washington and Philadelphia (MA). Obtained Ph.D. from Bonn University in 1989. 1985-1989 Research Assistant in the German Bundestag. 1989-1994 Research Assistant at the Department of Political Sciences in Bonn. Received scholarship 1994-1995 from the German Marshall Fund of the United States. 1996 Habilitation at Bonn University and Visiting Professor in Trier. 1997 Senior Fellow at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik. 1998-2002 Director of the postgraduate «European Studies Program» at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn and Teaching Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at Bonn University. Current position: Professor for International Politics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies.