The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers

Gruisen, Philippe van; Crombez, Christophe

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102040

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“…Some contributions develop general frameworks for evaluating the success of a presidency (Häge, 2017;Smeets and Vennix, 2014;Toneva-Metodieva, 2020;Vandecasteele and Bossuyt, 2014) or embed the presidency in integration theories (Coman, 2020;Puetter, 2014). Research has investigated the role of national parliaments during EU presidencies (Kaniok and Nováková, 2021), or addressed the influence of the presidency on institutional power relations more generally (Van Gruisen et al, 2019;Van Gruisen and Crombez, 2021). Analyses of how EU presidencies are discussed in the public sphere, however, are scarce (see Stepinska, 2014).…”

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A window of opportunity? The relevance of the rotating European Union presidency in the public eye

Eisele

Heidenreich

Kriegler

et al. 2022

European Union Politics

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The rotating EU presidency's relevance for EU politics has decreased since the introduction of a permanent council president. However, news salience and framing of the own government acting as the EU presidency can amplify publicity for EU affairs. We, therefore, evaluate the visibility and framing of the EU presidency in 12 Austrian newspapers for 2009–2019. We conduct an automated text analysis of 22 presidencies over 11 years, testing several hypotheses statistically, and qualify results via manually coded frames of the Austrian EU presidency in 2018. The results confirm the crucial importance of the domestication of EU politics, underscoring the potential of the presidency to serve as a window of opportunity for public debate. We discuss our findings with reference to the EU's democratic deficit.

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