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This blog post is the short version of my proposal to use “enhanced cooperation” in the refugee crisis instead of a qualified majority vote and shows how a rarely used treaty provision could be applied in the current refugee crisis. A longer blog post was published by the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin on 21 …
In seiner ersten Rede zur Lage der Europäischen Union legte Jean-Claude Juncker am 9.9.2015 seine politischen Prioritäten dar. Valentin Kreilinger erläutert in diesem Blogpost, wie sich diese 2010 eingeführte Tradition in das institutionelle System der EU einfügt und welche die Rolle die Rede des Kommissionspräsidenten spielt. Blogpost für das Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin
In his blog post, Valentin Kreilinger provides an overview of the participation of national parliaments on the third package for Greece. He shows that parliamentary power in the euro area is distributed asymmetrically. Only the German Bundestag votes on the start and the result of negotiations. In Estonia, Finland and Austria, deliberation and voting is …
The info-graphic to my new blog post for the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin, also published by the Hertie School of Governance (Link): [tweet https://twitter.com/delorsinstitut/status/620973152307445760 align=’center’]
Am 22. Juni 2015 haben die Präsidenten von Europäischer Kommission, Europäischem Rat, Euro-Gruppe, Europäischer Zentralbank und Europäischem Parlament den Bericht „Die Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion vollenden“ vorgelegt. Dieser Bericht wurde am 26. Juni 2015 von den Staats- und Regierungschefs „zur Kenntnis genommen“ und der EU-Ministerrat wurde ersucht, ihn „umgehend zu prüfen“. Der nun angestoßene Prozess erscheint …
(Photo: European Parliament on flickr) Without any doubt, the annual work programme of the European Commission (called “A new start” for 2015 and published on 16 December 2014) is an important policy document that receives quite some attention from the other EU institutions (earlier this year, the splits in the European Parliament were noteworthy: see …
It is not the first time in recent European integration history that a single national leader has expressed the desire to (re)negotiate something.[1] Angela Merkel did so in 2007-2009 when she wanted to save the main elements of the Constitutional Treaty. The German Chancellor once again, singlehandedly (or nearly), fought for a treaty, albeit a …
The principle of increasing the role of national parliaments in the EU’s legislative process has been promoted by several political actors, with the Treaty of Lisbon introducing a so called ‘yellow card’ system under which national parliaments can force the European Commission to review a legislative proposal. Valentin Kreilinger writes on recent decisions and initiatives …
Differentiated integration in the #EU, 2015: enhanced cooperation and intergovernmental treaties – @delorsinstitut pic.twitter.com/UVCluHT83q — Valentin Kreilinger (@tineurope) April 15, 2015