The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision-making body has received surprisingly little attention by integration researchers. Even less attention has been paid to the novel institutional form and underlying rationality of this forum at the interface between the national and Community levels. Based on extensive semi-structured interviews with members of the Brussels' permanent representations, this essay examines how Coreper maintains the performance and output of the Council through the production of a distinct culture of compromise and community-method. The result, empirically demonstrated in case studies of the 1994 local elections directive and of the 1996 Helms-Burton countermeas...
In contrast to general expectations the growth of EU membership as well as European treaty reform ha...
Two images exist of the day-to-day practice of the EU comitology system. The first claims that comit...
2 Abstract: Within the Council of the European Union (EU), the institution designed to represent ‘na...
The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision...
The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision...
I have organized this paper into two main sections. In the first I will summarize the main empirical...
Abstract This article examines the European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives, or ...
Abstract This article examines the European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives, or ...
This paper represents a first and thus preliminary account of an ongoing research project on the EU’...
This article examines the European Union\u27s Committee of Permanent Representatives, or COREPER, a ...
The Council of the EU is a crucial actor in EU legislative decision-making. However, how its reaches...
When picturing policy-making in the European Union (EU), we usually think of national mini _ sters a...
The Council of the EU is a crucial actor in EU legislative decision-making. However, how its reaches...
Before enlargement, many experts expected that the functioning of most EU institutions would be seve...
The Council is a crucial intergovernmental institution of the European Union. However, the complex, ...
In contrast to general expectations the growth of EU membership as well as European treaty reform ha...
Two images exist of the day-to-day practice of the EU comitology system. The first claims that comit...
2 Abstract: Within the Council of the European Union (EU), the institution designed to represent ‘na...
The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision...
The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision...
I have organized this paper into two main sections. In the first I will summarize the main empirical...
Abstract This article examines the European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives, or ...
Abstract This article examines the European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives, or ...
This paper represents a first and thus preliminary account of an ongoing research project on the EU’...
This article examines the European Union\u27s Committee of Permanent Representatives, or COREPER, a ...
The Council of the EU is a crucial actor in EU legislative decision-making. However, how its reaches...
When picturing policy-making in the European Union (EU), we usually think of national mini _ sters a...
The Council of the EU is a crucial actor in EU legislative decision-making. However, how its reaches...
Before enlargement, many experts expected that the functioning of most EU institutions would be seve...
The Council is a crucial intergovernmental institution of the European Union. However, the complex, ...
In contrast to general expectations the growth of EU membership as well as European treaty reform ha...
Two images exist of the day-to-day practice of the EU comitology system. The first claims that comit...
2 Abstract: Within the Council of the European Union (EU), the institution designed to represent ‘na...