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On the rotation of persons holding the presidency: experience in scientific comprehension

Gosudarstvo i pravo, 2022
On the basis of a comparative analysis of the constitutional models of different countries the approach, that considers the rotation of power not as a goal in itself, but as a means of avoiding the alienation of power from the people, has been proposed.
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The Rotating Council Presidency and the New Intergovernmentalism

The International Spectator, 2014
The Lisbon Treaty fundamentally changed the presidency regime of the European Union at the expense of one of the oldest and most central institutions of European integration: the rotating presidency. The chair positions of the European Council, the Foreign Affairs Council and the Eurogroup have been decoupled from the rotating presidency. Understanding
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The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States

2023
Published online: 01 September 2023 The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States explores the opportunities and burdens for small states of holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. While the functions and the achievements of the Council presidencies have been widely studied on the EU level, this ...
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The concept of a rotational presidency in Nigeria

The Round Table, 1996
Nigeria is an important African nation, with the potentials of population and material resources to play a major role in global politics. The country is multiethnic; its main features include the existence of three major ethnic groups, each territorially exclusive and larger in population than many countries of the world. Languages vary with the groups,
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Consistency and diversity? The EU's rotating trio Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty

Journal of European Public Policy, 2013
The Lisbon Treaty introduced significant changes to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The new Treaty combines a permanent chair with the principle of rotation based on three member states collaborating during an 18-month period, without specifying the responsibilities of trio groups.
Batory, Agnes, Puetter, Uwe
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Eurosceptics in the Rotating Presidency's Chair: Too Much Ado About Nothing?

Journal of European Integration, 2012
Abstract With the mainstreaming of Euroscepticism within established parties, the EU is facing a new challenge: that of soft Eurosceptic governments landing in the rotating presidency’s seat. Albeit not opposing the EU as such, these governments wish to put a brake on developments in further integration and challenge the EU informal norms of legitimacy
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14 Beyond the Rotating Presidency

2008
Abstract All of the presidents of the Council of Ministers have left their mark, in areas ranging from EU agenda-setting to securing agreement after technical negotiations. Partly because their duties are multifarious and poorly defined, their success has been variable. Leadership has been of three kinds.
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What’s left of the rotating presidency? The future of ‘national’ presidencies

2013
The rotating presidency has been at the core of the European Union’s (EU) institutional design ever since its foundation. Rotation ensured non-hierarchical, decentralized leadership of the Council and avoided the emergence of a single power centre. The result of a sensitive bargain between small and big states, the rotating Council presidency was ...
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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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Lobbying cycles in Brussels: Evidence from the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union

European Union Politics, 2018
The Council presidency holds direct responsibility for the Council’s functioning and moves between EU member states via a six-month rotation scheme. We argue that this rotating Council presidency causes a lobbying cycle among interest groups at the European level, whereby national interest groups from the country holding the presidency temporarily ...
Michelle Hollman, Zuzana Murdoch
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