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Declining Activity of the European Commission in Legislative Initiatives: Is the Commission Losing Its Influence?

verfasst von : Jerzy Ząbkowicz

Erschienen in: Institutionalist Perspectives on Development

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In a fairly general opinion, the political developments of past years have weakened the position of the European Commission as an institutional actor. It manifests itself, among others, by a decreasing volume of the Commission’s legislative actions, which means (for the supporters of the above thesis) that the Commission losses its powers. In this chapter I want to show that such decline in legislative activity actually takes place, but this trend follows the Commission’s new approach to ensure its effectiveness in a changing environment, and is not a result of losing influence. Basing mainly on primary sources, the chapter focuses on confronting official statements of leaders of the Juncker Commission on their vision of the European Commission’s position among the EU institutions with the actual activity of the Commission, including the Commission Work Programmes.

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Titel: Declining Activity of the European Commission in Legislative Initiatives: Is the Commission Losing Its Influence?
verfasst von: Jerzy Ząbkowicz
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Institutionalist Perspectives on Development
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98493-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98494-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98494-0_13

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