Terminaviso: Vienna Lecture on the European Union

Wien (OTS) - Uwe Puetter's new book 'The European Council and the
Council: New intergovernmentalism and institutional change' (Oxford
University Press, 2014) provides a new perspective on the European
Council and the Council of the EU that embody the new
intergovernmentalism in EU governance.

He identifies an integration paradox: member states are eager to
foster integration, but only outside the community method. As a
consequence, national governments increasingly engage in
non-legislative decision-making geared towards permanent
consensus-seeking and prefer direct involvement at all stages of the
EU policy process.

This undermines and modifies the role of traditional supranational
institutions - notably the Commission and the Court of Justice - in
prominent areas including economic governance, common foreign,
security and defence policy as well as employment and social policy.

The lecture illustrates the process of institutional change with
reference to the EU's key forums for intergovernmental
decision-making: the European Council and the Council of the EU.

The new intergovernmentalism and institutional change in EU
governance

 Speaker: Uwe Puetter (Professor in Public Policy, Jean Monnet Chair
 and Director of the Center for European Union Research, Central
 European University, Budapest)
 
 Comments:
 Verica Trstenjak (Department of European, International and
 Comparative Law, University of Vienna)
 Josef Melchior (Department of Political Science, University of
 Vienna)
  
 Moderator: 
 Zdenek Kudrna (Institute for European Integration Research,
 University of Vienna)


 Datum:   1.12.2014, 16:00 - 00:00 Uhr
 Ort:     Aula am Campus, Universität Wien, Hof 1.11
          Spitalgasse, 1090 Wien

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