Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Helen Wallace

The Council of Ministers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Council of Ministers provides a comprehensive analysis of the Council of Ministers: how it works, its varied activities, functions, and its relationships with the other key EU institutions and the member states. It is a key legislative institution which lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Revised & Updat
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780333948651
• ISBN-10: 0333948653
• Artikelnr.: 21431488

Autorenporträt

FIONA HAYES-RENSHAW is Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART 1: WHO DOES WHAT?
National Representatives Decide: The Ministers in Council
Officials Prepare the Ground: The Preparatory Bodies
Bureaucrats Organise and Advise:
The Council Secretariat
Taking Turns at the Wheel: The Presidency
PART II: WITH WHOM?
Overlapping Competences: The Council and the European Council
Competition and Cooperation: The Council and the Commission
An Evolving Partnership: The Council and the European Parliament
Not Just Governments: The Council and the Member States
PART III: HOW?
Less Often than Expected: Voting in the Council
Compromise and Consensus: Negotiation and Bargaining in the Council
Conclusions.