Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making
This article examines the impact of enlargements on EU governance and decision-making, especially legislative decision-making. It is shown that all EU enlargement rounds, other than the first, have served to help improve the EU’s decision-making capacities, by promoting treaty and other changes that...
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| description | This article examines the impact of enlargements on EU governance and decision-making, especially legislative decision-making. It is shown that all EU enlargement rounds, other than the first, have served to help improve the EU’s decision-making capacities, by promoting treaty and other changes that have made decision-making processes more efficient. The legislative outputs of the decision-making processes have declined in recent years, but this is for reasons other than enlargement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f2b8d9f46cd48f183c2d09928082b9d2022-12-21T17:56:15ZengUACESJournal of Contemporary European Research1815-347X2015-10-01121Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-MakingNeill Nugent0Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThis article examines the impact of enlargements on EU governance and decision-making, especially legislative decision-making. It is shown that all EU enlargement rounds, other than the first, have served to help improve the EU’s decision-making capacities, by promoting treaty and other changes that have made decision-making processes more efficient. The legislative outputs of the decision-making processes have declined in recent years, but this is for reasons other than enlargement.https://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/689EnlargementsEU decision-makingEU governancequalified majority voting |
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| title | Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making |
| title_full | Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making |
| title_fullStr | Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making |
| title_short | Enlargements and Their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making |
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| topic | Enlargements EU decision-making EU governance qualified majority voting |
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