The early days of European Environment Policy Introduction 2023 is the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the first environment service within the European Commission on 1January 1973 as well as of the first Environment Committee within the European Parliament. The European Green Deal is now one of the key priorities of the European Union, […]
Fonds Européen de Développement Régional (FEDER) Un deuxième dossier qui a caractérisé une efficace coopération entre Commission et Parlement concerne la réforme du Fonds Régional. Comme on a vu, les premières années de la décennie ’80 ont marqué une période très difficile pour la coopération européenne, le manque de confiance et les revendications nationalistes battant […]
Les Programmes intégrés méditerranéens (PIM) À la fin des années ’70 la Communauté européenne adopte une « approche globale » de coopération avec les pays tiers du Bassin Méditerranéen qui inclue des accords commerciaux préférentiels et entame le processus d’adhésion de trois pays méditerranéens (Grèce, Espagne et Portugal). En 1981 la Commission européenne présidé par M. Gaston […]
What happened in 1999 and why? How was the “sword of public accountability” described at the end of the previous post actually wielded? Pat Cox describes the process by which the report of a Committee of Independent experts, set up to examine the irregularities identified by the Parliament, was examined by him and his staff. […]
The ambition of every Parliament is to mark its influence in the political life and to shape legislation. This goal was already clear to the MEPs, appointed by their National Parliament, before 1979. Following the Treaty changes in 1970 and 1975, which created a limited number of competences in budgetary matters, MEPs started to exploit […]
At the beginning of the European adventure, already in 1952 the Assembly was a marginal element of the institutional architecture. The newly elected Parliament, in 1979, started its journey with very little competences but with a new political credibility. The two posts tell the story of the beginning of the Interinstitutional relations, as seen by […]