How intergovernmental are Intergovernmental Conferences? An example from the Maastricht Treaty reform
By: FALKNER, Gerda
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Subject(s): Relações Internacionais | Evento | Área de Livre Comércio | Política Social | EuropaJournal of European Public Policy 9, 1, p. 98-119Abstract: In the 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), conflits over social policy endangered the whole treaty reform package. The path-breaking innovations that finally occurred (although initially for elevem members only regarding both competence and procedures made the Maastricht Treaty a turning point for European social policy. For these reasons, the Maastricht Social Agreement represents an important case for testing the proposition that dynamics beyond powerand intergovernmental bargaining can play a decisive role in EU reform. The insigght that both a Euro-leve process of preference formation and Euro0level actors mattered here indicates that state-of-the-art research must pay attention to such dynamics as potentially relevant factors in all instances of EU treaty reform. EU reform, even at the constitutional level of treaty change and even in formal IGCs, can be much less 'intergovernmental' than the name 'Intergovernmental Conference' suggest
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In the 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), conflits over social policy endangered the whole treaty reform package. The path-breaking innovations that finally occurred (although initially for elevem members only regarding both competence and procedures made the Maastricht Treaty a turning point for European social policy. For these reasons, the Maastricht Social Agreement represents an important case for testing the proposition that dynamics beyond powerand intergovernmental bargaining can play a decisive role in EU reform. The insigght that both a Euro-leve process of preference formation and Euro0level actors mattered here indicates that state-of-the-art research must pay attention to such dynamics as potentially relevant factors in all instances of EU treaty reform. EU reform, even at the constitutional level of treaty change and even in formal IGCs, can be much less 'intergovernmental' than the name 'Intergovernmental Conference' suggest
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