Bulletin n. 2/2007
October 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Maurer Andreas
    Die Zukunft der Präsidentschaft im Ratssystem der Europäischen Union
    in Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 2007/2 ,  2007 ,  139-156
    THE FUTURE OF THE PRESIDENCY IN THE EU COUNCIL SYSTEM This contribution examines reasons and basic conditions for the reform of the system of rotating presidencies in the Council of the European Union and the European Council. The problem is put into the larger context of the EU’s system and institutional reform as well as the ongoing mutations of the internal EU Council system. Given the perspective of the EU as a dynamic, polyarchic, multi-level and multi-actor system, any attempts for reforming the Council’s presidency must be analysed in a set of overlapping contexts: first with regard to the intra-institutional Council system, secondly with regard to the EU’s inter-institutional framework, thirdly with regard to the relations between the EU institutions and those of the member states and fourthly with regard to the relations between the EU member states. The paper therefore firstly explores the discursive arguments "in the field" as well as the empirical evidence on the (mal)functioning of the Council system within the EU structure. Only in a second step the contribution analyses which reforms of the Council Presidency system may accommodate the normative challenges of a more efficient and effective EU. The contribution closes with an independent suggestion for reforming the Council Presidency system.
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