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E-Learning Unit 3: The EU Institutions and Modes of Governance

  1. Introduction
  2. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe
    1. Dissolving of the Pillar Structure
    2. Reforming the Union´s Competencies
      1. A Clear-Cut Catalogue of Competences?
      2. Categories of Competences
    3. Reforming the Procedures and Instruments
      1. Revision Procedures
      2. Legislative Procedures
      3. Budgetary Procedure
  3. A Revised Institutional Architecture
    1. The European Parliament
      1. Increase in Competence and Function
      2. With New Strength Towards a Bicameral System
      3. A Full-Fledged Parliament?
    2. The European Council
      1. An Expanded List of Tasks
      2. The President of the European Council
    3. The Council of Ministers
      1. Composition of the Council and its Presidency
      2. The New Majority Formula
      3. An Enhanced Ability?
    4. The Union Minister for Foreign Affairs
    5. The European Commission
      1. Reforms in the Light of European 'Leitideen'
      2. An Enhanced President of the Commission
      3. The College
  4. Perspectives
    1. Towards a New Institutional Balance?
    2. In a Fusion Trend?
    3. The TCE as a Further Step in the Evolution of European States?
  5. Further Readings

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V. Further Readings

 

  • Helen Wallace / William Wallace (Eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

 

  • Jack Hayward, and Anand Menon (Eds.): Governing Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

 

  • John Peterson / Elizabeth Bomberg (Eds.): Decision Making in the European Union, New York: St. Martin´s Press, 1999.

 

  • Neill Nugent: The Government and Politics of the European Union, 5th edition, Macmillan, 2002.

 

  • Simon Hix: The Political System of the European Union, 2nd. edition, London: Palgrage (due out in January 2005).

 

  • Wolgang Wessels: The Evolution of the EU System. Amsterdam and Nice- Ratchet Fusion in the Making. Contribution to the ECSA seventh Biennal International Conference, May 2001.

 

 

 

 

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