Analysis

The potential impact of the EU Council Presidency on legis-lative decision-making has been frequently identified. This article provides an empirical analysis of the Presidency’s influence on decision outcomes based on a large-n data set. Two counterfactuals are used to represent consensual decision-making and hard bargaining in the Council. The role of supranational actors is controlled for directly. The findings show that a member state benefits from holding the Presi-dency during the final stages of the legislative proceedings. Besides the support of supranational actors, the regression analysis controls for the voting threshold, the type of proposal and salience