The European Parliament and the Commission Crisis: A New Assertiveness?

Judge, David; Earnshaw, David

doi:10.1111/0952-1895.00192

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“…Second, government and opposition modes may converge and co‐vary at national and EU levels, since government‐opposition interaction based on partisan majorities at the European level may have multiple potential and simultaneous targets: Commission, Council and national governments. This may in part explain the new patterns of party competition and coalition‐formation within the new 1999–2004 EP, which seem to revolve primarily around an increase in inter‐party competition, especially between EPP and PES (for a discussion of these new patterns, see Judge & Earnshaw 2002; Kreppel & Hix 2003). These propositions suggest that there may be a substantively and theoretically important link between party politics at the national and the European level.…”

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Government‐opposition dynamics in the European Union: The Santer Commission resignation crisis

Ringe

2005

European J Political Res

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Abstract. This article seeks to shed light on the sources of government‐opposition dynamics in the European Union (EU). It considers the ideological left‐right divide and the sovereignty‐integration dimension as potential sources of a government‐opposition cleavage in the EU, as well as a ‘representation dimension’. The empirical evaluation of these propositions is based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the political crisis leading to the collective resignation of the Santer Commission. The article finds that government‐opposition dynamics in the EU are related to the sovereignty‐integration dimension of EU politics and to representation in EU executive institutions, rather than a left‐right divide. Both political beliefs and opportunistic motivations determine government‐support and opposition in the EU.

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Government‐opposition dynamics in the European Union: The Santer Commission resignation crisis

Ringe

2005

European J Political Res

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“…The EP has rarely used the motion of censure, while none of the motions actually taken were carried. 63 Given the high qualified majority required to compel the Commission to resign, this control mechanism diverges substantially, even categorically, from the political removability of the head of government, the definitive characteristic of parliamentary government. Instead, it approximates much more the mode of dismissal in a presidential system such as the impeachment process of the American Congress.…”

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Democratising the separation of powers in EU government: The case for presidentialism

Sonnicksen¹

2017

European Law Journal

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The EU, while not a state, can be conceived as a mixed or compound political system. Capturing its character of separation of powers has implications for understanding what the EU polity is, but also should be, not least from a democratic standpoint. Hence, the article addresses the EU as system of government in order to identify one appropriate path of democratisation. It first revisits separation of powers and the typology of parliamentary and presidential government to delineate criteria for categorising horizontal (i.e. between branches) division‐of‐powers arrangements. To this end, it elaborates in particular the criteria proposed by Steffani which allow for a more parsimonious differentiation between types of governments. Subsequently, the EU polity (e.g. its structure and functioning of separation of powers and “checks and balances”) is assessed regarding its conformity to a government type. Finally, I discuss implications for identifying a more certain point of reference for an approach to democratise EU government that is not only institutionally compatible, but also ‘demos enabling’.

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“…At the end of the 1990s an institutional crisis, without precedent for the EU, occurred: on 15 March 1999, the Commission under President Jacques Santer resigned collectively under pressure from the European Parliament as a consequence of accusations of fraud, nepotism and mismanagement of EU funds (Judge and Earnshaw, 2002). This crisis called into question the overall EU institutional framework, showing how the original model created by the European Communities' founding fathers was no longer appropriate for an EU which had expanded from six to 27 members and witnessed the expansion and deepening of EU intervention areas.…”

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European Commission Adoption of IPSAS to Reform Financial Reporting

Grossi

Soverchia

2011

Abacus

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The article offers an overview of the modernization of the European Commission (EC) accounting system. It represents an integral part of an overall rationalization of the EC organizational, administrative and financial dimensions which has been carried out over the last decade. The reformed accounting system is a dual one: it is based both on cash accounting, to manage budget appropriations, and on accrual accounting, to draw up the financial statements.Seventeen accounting rules, which draw upon International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and are based on accrual accounting, were issued by the EC and are the foundation of this reformed system. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Commission officials, this article tracks the key turning points, trajectories and outcomes of events within the implementation stage of this part of the EC accounting reform with a focus on the consolidation of annual accounts. The compilation of the consolidated financial statement (CFS) has become more complex. The original European Union (EU) organizational structure (Parliament, Council, Commission, Court of Justice and Court of Auditors) has broadened with the addition of agencies that were created during the early 1990s. Since 2005, these agencies have been included in the CFS of the EU, compiled according to IPSASs 6, 7 and 8.This article examines how the EU consolidation process has evolved over time and the drivers behind the reformed accounting systems and in particular the new consolidation approach, which is a result of the combination of the Continental and Anglo-Saxon governmental accounting approaches.

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The European Parliament and the Commission Crisis: A New Assertiveness?

Cited by 24 publications

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Government‐opposition dynamics in the European Union: The Santer Commission resignation crisis

Government‐opposition dynamics in the European Union: The Santer Commission resignation crisis

Democratising the separation of powers in EU government: The case for presidentialism

European Commission Adoption of IPSAS to Reform Financial Reporting

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