The Dynamics of European Integration – power and influence in EU constitutional negotiations
Date:
March 8, 2012 - 17:20 - 19:00
Building:
Nador u. 9, Monument Building Room:
Popper Room Event type:
Lecture Event audience:
Open to the Public External presenter(s):
Dr. Derek Beach CEU organizer(s):
Marie-Pierre F. Granger CEU host unit(s):
Center for European Union Research (CEUR) CEU contact person:
Krisztina Móricz E-mail:
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The EU has in the last twenty-five years been in a process of almost continual revision of its founding constitutional order; the EU Treaties. The EU in so-called Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) has adopted major changes to both the range of polices dealt with at the EU while also deepening cooperation by strengthening EU powers. All governments have to approve the final revisions by unanimous vote, making all governments in principal equal. However, are all governments equal? Or have major revisions of the EU treaties been decided by the Franco-German motor? Have smaller states played a role? How and when can the EU Commission or European Parliament play an influential role? The lecture will conclude by debating the implications of the findings for current discussions on revising the EU Treaties to deal with the eurocrisis.
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Derek Beach (Author) is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches European integration, international relations and methodology. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books on international negotiations, referendums, and European integration, including a book that has traced negotiation processes within the EU titled The Dynamics of European Integration (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005). He has co-authored a forthcoming book titled Process Tracing methods – Foundations and Guidelines with the University of Michigan Press. He has been a visiting fellow at American University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.