Tallberg, J. (2003) ‘The agenda-shaping powers of the EU Council Presidency’

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

European union

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Summary :

Introduction.
The academic context.
The Presidency as a way to lead the European activity.
Why would member states accept such a steering power?
Comments on Tallberg's article: A conditional 'power of the chair'.
Conclusion.
References.

Abstract

the presidency of the European Union council is an attribution that is not often analysed in the literature on EU decision-making. To put it briefly, the member state holding the presidency of the council for six months is in fact chairing the meetings of the European council, meeting at least twice a year, and of the EU council. As it is defined by the Treaties as an organisational function, only a few academics devoted attention on it as an influential agenda-shaper. However this occupation, following the example of many European institutions, developed itself apart from its legal attributions throughout the years. As a result, it needed to be reconsidered and this has been done by tallberg in his article the agenda-shaping powers of the EU council presidency. It is a rather straightforward piece of work so we will go through tallberg's main arguments following his own order. We will see that even though tallberg's findings are hardly questionable - as he is using both theoretical and empirical methods - there is still a need to develop some of them.