Executive power of the European Union : law, practices, and the living constitution
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Executive power of the European Union : law, practices, and the living constitution
(Collected courses of the Academy of European Law = Recueil des cours de l'Académie de droit européen, v. 12/4)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The picture of Brussels-based bureaucrats exercising wide-ranging, arbitrary executive powers with no accountability is one of the favourite images conjured by Eurosceptics across the political spectrum. What truth is there in the image? This book aims to bring the EU's executive powers out of the shadows by mapping the evolution and current form of the EU's various executive actors, their powers, and the mechanisms for holding them accountable. In doing so it
provides a rich understanding of the way in which the EU's institutional and legal framework fits within national constitutional presumptions about how power should be controlled and accountability achieved.
Covering both the political executive and the administrative executive at the EU institutional level, the book analyses their relationship with national executive power, and traces the historical evolution of executive order in Europe from the Peace of Westphalia through classic inter-governmental organizations to the allegedly unique EU framework. The book's analysis covers both the formal legal structure of the Union and the evolution of the EU's living institutions in practice. The
picture presented is of a fragmented, cluttered and complex European executive space, resistant to radical constitutional reform and in need of a more nuanced understanding of the different forms of executive power required by different political aims and modes of decision-making.
Table of Contents
- I TOPOGRAPHY AND LAYERED SEDIMENTS
- II TIDES OF EU REFORM
- III A LIVING EU CONSTITUTION
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