Parliamentary assertion and deep integration: the European parliament in the CETA and TTIP negotiations

Roederer-Rynning, Christilla

doi:10.1080/09557571.2018.1461808

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“…The second resolution was adopted on July 8, 2015, two years after the first resolution and at a time when the polarization of European society was accelerating. As previously mentioned, the political and societal situations around the TTIP changed in 2014, and, thus, increased cleavages between Europhiles and Euroskeptics and between the right and left wings were observable in the EP (Eliasson & Huet Garcia-Duran, 2018;Roederer-Rynning, 2017). The discussion of the second resolution shows that a majority of the EP still supported the TTIP.…”

Section: Involving Ttip Social Actors and Ngos In The Debatementioning

confidence: 83%

The Politicization of European Union Trade Policy: Radical-Left Euroskeptic Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Tereszkiewicz

2021

Journal of Economic Integration

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This study aims to analyze the correlation between radical-left Euroskeptic (RLE) activity and European Union (EU) trade policy by focusing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). At the beginning of TTIP negotiations, the agreement was not high on political agendas and was not a major concern within European society. Thus, its salience was low. This initial lack of interest stemmed from the fact that the TTIP, as an economic and technical issue, did not draw public attention. This study shows that RLEs profoundly affected public opinion on the TTIP by increasing its salience during the European parliamentary elections in 2014 in France and Germany. Second, RLEs involved social actors and non-governmental organizations in anti-TTIP campaigns and channeled European anxieties into the STOP TTIP European Citizens’ Initiative. Third, RLEs used this proposed agreement between the EU and the United States to increase polarization within European society and ideological cleavages within the European Parliament. Finally, we can assume that an anti-TTIP campaign promoted by radical-right Euroskeptics would have had different drivers. Thus, my findings have implications for understanding the correlation between RLE activity and the politicization of EU trade policy, and they suggest some avenues for future research.

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The Politicization of European Union Trade Policy: Radical-Left Euroskeptic Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Tereszkiewicz

2021

Journal of Economic Integration

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“…Finally, Peffenköver and Adriaensen (2021) have shown the EP's capability of signalling ‘looming vetoes’ to the Commission in order to modify negotiation outputs. This growing strand of research underlines the existence of a process of institutional self-empowerment and ‘assertion’ (Roederer-Rynning, 2017) undertaken by the EP in the negotiation and ratification of new EU FTAs, especially in the context of salient ones such as TTIP and CETA (Young and Peterson, 2014; Dominguez, 2017) but also, for example, in the EU–Korea FTA (Park, 2017). Ultimately, according to Meissner (2016) the relevance of the EP has truly reached its apex with the TTIP, as opposed to earlier trade negotiations (2016: 284).…”

Section: Ftas and The European Parliamentmentioning

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When politicization meets ideology: the European Parliament and free trade agreements

Migliorati

Vignoli

2021

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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Since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in European Union (EU) trade policy. At the same time, a ‘new generation’ of free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, and the agreement with Japan, have been negotiated by the European Commission. Although existing literature has tackled the process of the EP's institutional self-empowerment in this policy area, there is no systematic research investigating the lines of conflict within the EP over FTAs. Through a newly collected dataset of all EP plenary debates between 2009 and 2019 on six relevant FTAs, we extract EP Members’ (MEPs) preferences by means of a manual textual analysis. We then test the explanatory power of the two traditional lines of cleavages within the EP over MEPs stated preferences: position on the left-right axis and support for EU integration. We find that both these dimensions fundamentally shape the conflict in the EP over FTAs. The impact of these two ideological cleavages is magnified in the context of politicized FTAs, namely the TTIP and CETA. Through these findings, the paper significantly contributes to the research on competition in the EP and, more broadly, to the understanding of EU trade policy and its emerging politicization dynamics.

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“…The deputies called on the French government to demand that the Commission remove cultural services from the mandate-and to block the text in the Council meeting of 14 June 2013, if necessary, by making use of its veto under unanimity voting. This demand was ini-tially contested in the Commission, where the College of Commissioners had voted in favour of the text, but also in the European Parliament committee on International Trade, where the chair did not favour the cultural exception (Roederer-Rynning, 2017). Eventually, the French offensive succeeded to reverse the tide in the Council and the European Parliament.…”

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Missing in Action? France and the Politicization of Trade and Investment Agreements

Meunier

Roederer-Rynning

2020

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Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) and for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada have provoked massive mobilization throughout Europe, both on the streets and online. Yet France, long at the epicenter of anti-globalization and anti-Americanism, has played a surprisingly modest role in the mobilization campaign against these agreements. This article asks why France did not contribute to anti-TTIP mobilization and, more broadly, how patterns of French mobilization over trade have changed over the past two decades. Using comparative-historical analysis, we explore to what extent this puzzling French reaction can be traced to changing attitudes towards the US, agenda-shaping by the French government, and transformations in the venues and techniques of social mobilization. We thus contribute to the growing literature on the politicization of trade agreements and offer insights into the links between domestic and international politics.

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Parliamentary assertion and deep integration: the European parliament in the CETA and TTIP negotiations

Cited by 30 publications

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The Politicization of European Union Trade Policy: Radical-Left Euroskeptic Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The Politicization of European Union Trade Policy: Radical-Left Euroskeptic Opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

When politicization meets ideology: the European Parliament and free trade agreements

Missing in Action? France and the Politicization of Trade and Investment Agreements

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