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From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy

The Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Council Presidency is widely regarded as one of the most challenging responsibilities for EU countries, particularly for newcomers. Countries that joined the Union during the eastern enlargement in 2004 have presided over the EU at most twice, as the ...
M. Mišík
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The agenda-shaping powers of the EU Council Presidency

Journal of European Public Policy, 2003
Existing literature is overwhelmingly sceptical about the capacity of the Council Presidency to shape the EU agenda. The Presidency's ability to promote private concerns is considered highly limited and, typically, the Presidency is depicted as a "responsabilite sans pouvior'. This article challenges the conventional wisdom on theoretical and empirical
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Brokering Deals in EU Trilogues? Legislative Priorities and Success of the Belgian Presidency

Politics of the Low Countries
In the first half of 2024, Belgium held the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). In that capacity, the Belgian Presidency was responsible for brokering legislative deals in trilogues. This research notes examines [1] whether the
Thomas Laloux, Tom Delreux, Emilien Mercenier   +2 more
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Spain’s European Policy During its Presidency of the Council of the EU

Sociopolitical Sciences, 2023
The article examines the main aspects of the Spain’s European policy as the President of the EU Council. The further course of the Kingdom’s European policy depends on the effectiveness of the Spanish government’s work in the Council in the second half of 2023.
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Clusters of successes and problems: results of the European cluster conference

Analytical papers of the Institute of Europe RAS
The annual European cluster conference took place in Brussels on May 7-8, 2024. It was organized by the European Commission in cooperation with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU and support of the European Platform for Cluster Cooperation ...
Alexander Kotov
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20th anniversary of the EU Eastern enlargement: Stocktaking of the membership experience, challenges, and opportunities

The Journal of Contemporary European Studies
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union was the biggest ever expansion of the European integration project. Therefore, it was a source of challenges never faced by the Union before.
M. Mišík, Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
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Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia

The Journal of Contemporary European Studies
The article assesses the EU membership of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a special focus on their attempts, already as EU members to change their relations with Russia, which remains their ‘significant Other’.
Kiryl Kascian, V. Denisenko, I. Matonyte
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The rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU – Still an agenda-setter?

European Union Politics, 2020
What role does the rotating Council Presidency maintain a decade after Lisbon? This article argues that, regardless of institutional changes, the rotating Presidency still shapes the Council agenda to a large extent. Based on an original hand-coded dataset of rotating Presidency programmes between 1997 and 2017, I show that some policies are ‘stickier’
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EU Council Presidency as Agenda Shaper: The Case of the Czech EU Presidency

2014
Based on an analysis of several EU Presidencies, Swe dish political scientist Jonas Tallberg created a model that identifies ways in wh ich EU Presidency countries shape the EU agenda. In this model, Tallberg concep tualises the process of agenda shaping in a broader way and particularly focuses o n structuring issues that are already a part of the EU ...
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Opinion Statement ECJ-TF 4/2014 of the CFE on the decision of the European Court of Justice in SCA Group Holding BV et al. (Joined Cases C-39/13, C-40/13 and C-41/13), on the requirements to form a “fiscal unity”

European Taxation, 2015
This is an Opinion Statement prepared by CFE ECJ Task Force on SCA Group Holding BV et al. (Joined Cases C-39/13, C-40/13 and C-41/13), submitted to the European Court of Justice, the European Commission and the EU Council in December 2014.
Ecj Task Force of the CFE
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