Getting started: Agenda-setting in European Environmental Policy in the 1970s

Meyer, Jan-Henrik

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“…See Gfeller et al 2011;Doutriaux and Lequesne 2007;Corbett et al 2003;Kreppel 2002. 18 See Rittberger 2014, 2003Knudsen 2014, and with Rasmussen 2008Tulli 2017;Meyer 2014 added a sub-chapter on party groups to the Rules of Procedure. This resolution established the first three EP party groups -Christian Democrats, Socialists, and Liberals and Allies.…”

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Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliaments’ Gain in Power, 1952-1979

Roos

2017

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The European Parliament (EP) can be considered the boldest advocate for ever more European integration. Its members (MEPs) have been pushing for broad Community competences in economic, social and financial policy matters from the EP’s first years of existence – a time in which member states struggled to agree on mere political rapprochement in major parts of the above-mentioned areas, and also a time in which the EP had, according to the Communities’ founding treaties, few parliamentary powers. This paper aims to show that despite the minor role assigned to it by the treaties, the EP developed into a de facto co-legislator long before the Single European Act (SEA), the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam, being able to amend Council regulations and directives, and exercising a certain level of control not only over the Commission, but also the Council through non-binding instruments such as questions, which both institutions regularly answered. Different strategies will be assessed through which the MEPs aimed to gain more parliamentary power. Based on these analyses, the paper seeks to refute dominant theories of the EP as a fairly powerless talking shop prior to its first direct elections in 1979, demonstrating that treaty basis and political reality differed remarkably.

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Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliaments’ Gain in Power, 1952-1979

Roos

2017

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“…As such, the article goes beyond a usual misconception of many historians and political scientists who consider the first direct elections of 1979 as the first necessary step towards a truly parliamentary character of the EP (among others Shackleton, 2012;Defarges, 2005;Kardasheva, 2009). Noteworthy exceptions studying the EP from its beginnings are, among others, works by Rittberger (2003Rittberger ( , 2014, Knudsen (2014) and Meyer (2014). This article shows that today's role of the EP and its swift gain in power over the last decades cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the EP's early years, and particularly the MEPs' behaviour during these years (Roos, 2017).…”

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Intra-Party Group Unity in the European Parliament Prior to its First Direct Elections in 1979

Roos

2018

Parliamentary Affairs

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This article examines the inner unity of the European Parliament's (EP) party groups prior to its first direct elections in 1979, at a time when such unity was technically not necessary, given the EP's dominantly consultative role, according to the Treaties; and when no electoral incentives and few disciplinary tools could be used to enforce unity. Using semi-structured interviews with former Members of the EP (MEPs) from all EP party groups existing prior to 1979, as well as EP documents from that time, this article highlights, on the one hand, the positive and strategic incentives that group unity brought to individual MEPs. On the other hand, the article demonstrates the MEPs' socialisation to group solidarity norms, their shared preferences and their personal connections. The article also suggests the role of MEPs' attitudes towards European integration, and willingness to increase the power of their institution.

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“…We also wish to explore how IOs helped to shape ways of thinking and talking about environmental issues and necessary global protective measures, or what political scientists call agenda setting. 28 IOs established links with scientists and fostered the formation of their international networks. The politics-science nexus provided IOs with scientific capital in the form of expertise and knowledge, but also with policy ideas and legitimacy for demanding internationally coordinated action for environmental protection.…”

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Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century

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2022

International Organizations and Environmental Protection

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Carbon dioxide emissions contribute to rising average surface temperatures and the melting of arctic sea ice as well as ocean acidification, threatening precious natural habitats like coral reefs. In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted with 'high confidence' in its fifth assessment report that, even in the case of moderate global warming, many regions in the world would experience more extreme weather events in the future. Moreover, a rise in the average global temperature of around three per cent would lead to 'extensive biodiversity loss' . 1 The report outlined two extreme scenarios: one, a 'low-emission mitigation scenario' , in which states worldwide reduce their emissions substantially and take coordinated systematic action to control their impact, limiting the rise in temperature to 2.6 degrees centigrade during the period from 2081 to 2100 (compared to the mean temperature between 1986 and 2005); and, two, a catastrophic 'high-emission scenario' with a temperature rise of 8.5 degrees centigrade in the same period. 2 The fifth IPCC assessment report resulted from a global effort since 2008 to collate and interpret scientific data on climate change. A total of 259 authors from thirty-nine countries debated the physical science base of climate change, receiving 54,677 comments in the process. A total of 309 authors from seventy countries analysed issues regarding the impact of climate change, adaptation to its consequences and the vulnerability of different human societies, considering 50,444 comments in the course of their work. Finally, 235 authors from 57 countries devoted themselves to identifying ways to mitigate climate change, incorporating 38,315 comments. 3

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Getting started: Agenda-setting in European Environmental Policy in the 1970s

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Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliaments’ Gain in Power, 1952-1979

Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliaments’ Gain in Power, 1952-1979

Intra-Party Group Unity in the European Parliament Prior to its First Direct Elections in 1979

Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century

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