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By: fabiodessi92 • 1 year ago
A good summary in the overall. A bit lumpy to read in my opinion, too many lists, to many schemes. It can be a little difficult to read for students unfamiliar with EU law but it's definitly worth the price, if the missing chapters will be filled it could deserve even more.
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By: fabiodessi92 • 1 year ago
Hi, the document info were wrong. It said the whole book was summarized, but that's not true. Some chapters are missing, and not a few.
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Hi Fabio, good point. I did include the table of contents in the preview pages to prevent this misunderstanding from occurring, so this could have been noticed. The chapters that are missing were not part of my study content. I'll adjust it right away. Hopefully the other chapters are of use to you and good luck with your exam.
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Contents
Chapter 1 – Theories of European Integration.......................................................................................7
European Integration and the First Attempts to Theorize It...............................................................7
The Intellectual Background...............................................................................................................7
Theories of European Integration.......................................................................................................8
Neofunctionalism...........................................................................................................................8
Neofunctionalism Revised............................................................................................................10
Intergovernmentalism..................................................................................................................10
Liberal Intergovernmentalism......................................................................................................11
New Intergovernmentalism..........................................................................................................11
Postfunctionalism.........................................................................................................................11
Chapter 2 – Theories of EU Governance...............................................................................................13
A Shift of Focus.................................................................................................................................13
New Institutionalism.........................................................................................................................13
Governance......................................................................................................................................14
Policy Networks................................................................................................................................16
EU Governance Approaches.............................................................................................................18
Chapter 5 – From the End of the War to the Schuman Plan.................................................................19
Background: The Ideal of European Unity........................................................................................19
The End of the War: Federalism, and the Hague Congress...............................................................19
The Cold War....................................................................................................................................19
The German Problem.......................................................................................................................21
The Schuman Plan for Coal and Steel...............................................................................................21
National Positions and the Origins of the ECSC................................................................................21
From the Schuman Plan to the Treaty of Paris.................................................................................22
Chapter 6 – The “Other” European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic
Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)..........................................................................................23
The Pleven Plan................................................................................................................................23
The European Coal and Steel Community........................................................................................24
Messina............................................................................................................................................24
The Road to Rome Treaties..............................................................................................................25
Euratom............................................................................................................................................26
Chapter 7 – The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)...27
The Early Years: 1958-63..................................................................................................................27
The 1963 Crisis..................................................................................................................................27
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, The 1965 Crisis..................................................................................................................................28
The Luxembourg Compromise..........................................................................................................28
Into the 1970s...................................................................................................................................28
The Hague Summit...........................................................................................................................29
Chapter 8 – The Revival of European Integration (the Mid-1970s to the Late 1980s)..........................31
Leadership Changes: 1974................................................................................................................31
The European Council.......................................................................................................................31
Other Institutional Developments....................................................................................................31
The European Monetary System......................................................................................................31
The Southern Enlargements.............................................................................................................31
The British Budget Rebate................................................................................................................31
Leadership Changes: 1981-82...........................................................................................................32
Moves to Revive the EC....................................................................................................................32
Fontainebleau...................................................................................................................................32
1985: A Watershed Year...................................................................................................................33
The Single European Act...................................................................................................................33
Chapter 9 – Maastricht and Amsterdam (the Late 1980s to the Late 1990s).......................................34
Towards Maastricht..........................................................................................................................34
The Treaty on European Union.........................................................................................................34
After Maastricht...............................................................................................................................34
The Commission after Maastricht.....................................................................................................35
Political Change................................................................................................................................35
Monetary Union...............................................................................................................................35
Enlargement.....................................................................................................................................35
The 1996 IGC....................................................................................................................................35
The Treaty of Amsterdam.................................................................................................................36
Chapter 10 – From Amsterdam to Lisbon (2000-09)............................................................................37
The Nice Treaty.................................................................................................................................37
The Lisbon Strategy..........................................................................................................................37
European Security and Defense Policy.............................................................................................37
The Constitutional Treaty.................................................................................................................38
Enlargement.....................................................................................................................................38
The European Parliament and the New Commission.......................................................................38
The Lisbon Treaty.............................................................................................................................38
Chapter 11 – the EU in Crisis (2009-19)................................................................................................40
The Unfolding Eurozone Crisis..........................................................................................................40
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, The Refugee Crisis............................................................................................................................40
Brexit................................................................................................................................................41
The Populist Challenge.....................................................................................................................41
Other Developments........................................................................................................................41
Chapter 12 – The Institutional Architecture.........................................................................................42
The Treaties......................................................................................................................................42
The Decision Making Institutions (the Union Method).....................................................................43
The European Council...................................................................................................................43
The Commission...........................................................................................................................43
The Council of the EU (the Council)..............................................................................................43
The European Parliament.............................................................................................................44
The European economic and Social Committee (EESC)................................................................45
The Committee of the Regions (CoR)............................................................................................45
Decision Making Procedures............................................................................................................45
The Budgetary Procedure.............................................................................................................46
Legislative Procedures..................................................................................................................46
Implementation................................................................................................................................48
National Authorities and Implementation....................................................................................48
The Commission and Implementation..........................................................................................48
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)......................................................................49
The Court of Auditors...................................................................................................................49
The Decision Making Institutions (CFSP)...........................................................................................49
The Post-Lisbon Architecture of the EU............................................................................................50
Catalogue of Competences...........................................................................................................50
Differentiated Integration.............................................................................................................51
Emergency Brakes........................................................................................................................51
Passerelle Clauses.........................................................................................................................51
Key points.........................................................................................................................................51
Chapter 13 – the European Commission..............................................................................................54
Functions..........................................................................................................................................54
Composition and appointment.........................................................................................................54
The Commission in the Policy-Making Process.................................................................................55
The Commission and the Member States.....................................................................................55
The Commission as an Agent of the Member States....................................................................55
The Commission as an Autonomous Actor...................................................................................56
The Commission and the European Parliament............................................................................57
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, The Commission and Managing Implementation.............................................................................57
The Commission as Implementer.................................................................................................57
Financial Management.....................................................................................................................58
Key Points.........................................................................................................................................58
Chapter 14 – The European Council and the Council of the European Union (EU)...............................59
Definitions and Distinctions..............................................................................................................59
Intergovernmental and Supranational Interpretations.....................................................................59
The European Council.......................................................................................................................60
The Rationale for the European Council.......................................................................................60
Composition and Organization.....................................................................................................60
Functions and Dysfunctions..........................................................................................................60
Intergovernmentalism and Informality in the European Council..................................................61
The Council of the EU.......................................................................................................................62
A Purely Intergovernmental Institution?......................................................................................63
COREPER and other Preparatory Bodies...........................................................................................63
COREPER.......................................................................................................................................63
High-Level Preparatory Bodies.....................................................................................................65
The Working Parties.....................................................................................................................65
The Council Presidency.....................................................................................................................65
Conclusion....................................................................................................................................66
Key Points.........................................................................................................................................66
Chapter 15 – The European Parliament................................................................................................68
The Struggle for Power.....................................................................................................................69
Direct Elections.............................................................................................................................70
Budgetary Powers.........................................................................................................................70
Influence in the Legislative Process..............................................................................................70
The EP and the Commission.........................................................................................................70
Debates and Research......................................................................................................................71
Political Behavior and EP Elections...............................................................................................71
International Politics and Organization of the EP.........................................................................72
Committee Work in the EP...........................................................................................................72
The Party Groups..........................................................................................................................72
The Independence of MEPs..........................................................................................................73
The EP and Inter-Institutional Bargaining.....................................................................................73
Key points.........................................................................................................................................73
Chapter 16 – The Court of Justice of the European Union....................................................................75
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, Context.............................................................................................................................................75
Structure and Functions...................................................................................................................75
Structure.......................................................................................................................................75
Functions......................................................................................................................................75
CJEU Rulings on the Powers of the Institutions................................................................................76
The Isoglocuse case (1980)...........................................................................................................76
Les Verts v. European Parliament (1986)......................................................................................76
European Parliament v. Council (the Comitology case) (1988).....................................................77
European Parliament v. Council (the Chernobyl case) (1990).......................................................77
CJEU Rulings on the Nature of Law...................................................................................................77
Van Gend en Loos (1963)..............................................................................................................77
Costa v. ENEL (1964).....................................................................................................................77
Van Duyn v. Home Office (1974)...................................................................................................78
The Factortame Cases (1990, 1991).............................................................................................78
Francovich v. Italy (1991)..............................................................................................................78
CJEU Rulings and Policy Impact........................................................................................................78
The Rise of Subsidiarity, the CJEU, and Law......................................................................................78
Court Curbing? The CJEU and the Member States............................................................................79
The Intergovernmental case.........................................................................................................79
The Neofunctionalist case.............................................................................................................79
Key Points.........................................................................................................................................80
Chapter 17 – Organized Interests.........................................................................................................82
The Growth of Interest Group Activity at the EU Level.....................................................................82
Types of Interest Group....................................................................................................................82
Forms of Interest Representation.....................................................................................................82
Resources.........................................................................................................................................83
Organized Interests and the Institutional Actors..............................................................................83
Regulating lobbying..........................................................................................................................84
Key points.........................................................................................................................................84
Chapter 18 – Policy Making and Policies in the European Union.........................................................86
The European Union’s Policy Agenda...............................................................................................86
The European Union’s Policy Cycle...................................................................................................88
Agenda setting..............................................................................................................................88
Policy formulation........................................................................................................................88
Decision making............................................................................................................................88
Implementation............................................................................................................................88
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, Review and Feedback...................................................................................................................89
Overview.......................................................................................................................................89
Major Policy Areas............................................................................................................................89
Competition..................................................................................................................................89
Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion....................................................................................90
Cohesion Policy.............................................................................................................................90
Energy...........................................................................................................................................91
Transport......................................................................................................................................91
Research and Innovation..............................................................................................................91
Key Points.........................................................................................................................................91
Chapter 26 – Enlargement....................................................................................................................93
History..............................................................................................................................................93
The Enlargement Procedure.............................................................................................................93
Explaining Enlargement....................................................................................................................94
Turkey...............................................................................................................................................94
Enlargement fatigue?.......................................................................................................................95
Key Points.........................................................................................................................................95
Abbreviations.......................................................................................................................................97
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