Friend Zone Forever? The Essence of and Justifications for the EU's Decision‐Making Autonomy

Öberg, Marja‐Liisa

doi:10.1111/jcms.13459

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“…Two contributions in this Special Issue address the overarching constraints and implications of third country influence for the EU's legal and political order, respectively. The 10th article by Marja‐Liisa Öberg (2023) explores the essence of and justifications for the EU's decision‐making autonomy as a constraining concept on allowing third country participation in the formal venues of EU law and policy‐making. The concept of decision‐making autonomy is embedded in the expansion of the EU's regulatory sphere and the subsequent conflicts of sovereignty between the EU and its member states, and third countries lacking a possibility to participate in the making of the laws and policies that they adopt.…”

Section: Overarching Constraints and Implications For The Eu's Legal ...mentioning

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Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Lavenex¹,

Öberg

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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This introductory article conceptualizes the notion of third country influence on European Union (EU) law and policy and proposes an analytical framework theorizing the venues and means through which third countries may gain such impact, under what conditions and with which implications for the EU's legal and political order. The article first introduces the focus on outside‐in influence in the context of European studies, generally, and EU privileged third country relations, specifically. Thereafter, an analytical framework is developed for mapping and explaining the outside‐in dynamics on EU law and policy‐making differentiating between diplomatic, governance and discursive venues; coercive versus technocratic and normative mechanisms of influence; and the legal constraints and political implications of these processes. Turning to the potential determinants of these occurrences, the article then proposes a set of hypotheses for conditions under which third countries can influence EU law and policies, before summarizing the individual contributions to this Special Issue.

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Section: Overarching Constraints and Implications For The Eu's Legal ...mentioning

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Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Lavenex¹,

Öberg

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Norway has sought to be as closely affiliated to the EU as is possible for a non‐member. That is not the case with the UK, which is concerned with managing divergence from the EU (Öberg, 2023), nor with Switzerland, whose affiliation is looser than Norway's and is currently struggling to reach a new settlement with the EU (Lavenex and Veuthey, 2023).…”

Section: Third Country Inclusionmentioning

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“…The dilemma facing the EU in relating to third countries extends to EU–Member State relations. Were the EU to grant third countries not only extensive rights and obligations but also direct participation in the EU's decision‐making system, it would weaken or undercut the distinction between members and non‐members (Öberg, 2023), and risk that members try to renegotiate their terms of EU co‐operation, which may set in motion strong centrifugal dynamics and undermine internal EU rule‐based coherence.…”

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The EU and Third Countries: Consequences for Democracy and the Political Order

Fossum

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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This article discusses the democratic implications of third country incorporation for the EU and for third countries. The more the EU transforms sovereignty in an open and inclusive manner, the greater the scope for third country presence, participation and influence. For the EU, the greater the presence and influence of third countries, the more pressing the democratic incongruence. For third countries, the better included and the more they participate, the less incongruent their affiliation, and the more similar to members they become. These considerations depend on how the EU structures its relations with third countries and the nature of the EU's political order. It is in the EU's internal market and flanking areas that the pooling and sharing of sovereignty is the most pronounced. The conundrum facing third countries and the EU is that the internal market is central to the EU's constitution as a political system.

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The Boundaries of the Internal Market In- and Outside the EU

Öberg

2024

The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World

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This chapter addresses the question of the outer limits of the European Union’s (EU) internal market and its significance in the Union's foreign policy, especially in relations with the EU’s neighbouring countries. The internal market forms the core of European integration and has gained increased importance in the external context. Through an analysis of the relevance of the internal market within the EU as well as in the Union's policies towards the neighbourhood countries, the chapter argues that the extension of the boundaries of the internal market forms a highly significant part of the Union's external policy consolidating its leading role in the region. The expansion of the internal market offers third countries a strong opportunity to identify themselves as belonging to the wider European community and ensures a long-term commitment to the European integration project. While the formal, physical and administrative borders of the EU remain, the boundaries of the internal market continue to be blurred and the European integration project broadened and deepened for the benefit of security and prosperity in the region.

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Friend Zone Forever? The Essence of and Justifications for the EU's Decision‐Making Autonomy

Cited by 5 publications

References 49 publications

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

The EU and Third Countries: Consequences for Democracy and the Political Order

The Boundaries of the Internal Market In- and Outside the EU

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