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The Appointment of the President of the European Commission 2019: A Toothless European Parliament?

verfasst von : Johannes Müller Gómez, Alina Thieme

Erschienen in: Die Europawahl 2019

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

This chapter scrutinises the processes that led to the appointment of the new Commission President after the European elections in 2019. The authors argue that the European Parliament did not show its teeth to the Member States and that the inter-institutional power balance shifted towards the European Council. Their findings further suggest that the European Parliament’s legal veto position is a necessary condition for a power balance dominated by the Parliament. Only the combination of the Parliament’s veto power and its internal cohesion can sufficiently explain situations in which the Parliament represents the primary EU institution.

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Fußnoten
1
Following the German Federal Constitutional Court’s description of the EU as a “Staatenverbund” (Bundesverfassungsgericht 1993).
 
2
The following presentation of these two models represents a summary of Müller Gómez et al. (2019, pp. 56–59).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Appointment of the President of the European Commission 2019: A Toothless European Parliament?
verfasst von
Johannes Müller Gómez
Alina Thieme
Copyright-Jahr
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29277-5_15