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On the Community Method
Notre Europe has launched the debate last May by publishing two Policy briefs on the community method of EU policy-making. Notre Europe asked Richard Corbett to take a stand.
Richard Corbett – former Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 and now advisor to the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy – reminds that even though there is a range of decision taking procedures in the EU, the more supranational procedures are more and more frequent. Fear of a more intergovernmental EU, especially with the more important role of the European Council, must be nuanced. Indeed the example of the European Stability Mechanism shows that an intergovernmental structure can be more communautaire than expected.
SUR LE MÊME THÈME
ON THE SAME THEME
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The Community Method, the EU’s “default” operating system
The move from a functionalist to democratic method
Triggering European politics to reinforce the Community method
