POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fiscal Union, Liberal Democracy, Execution Unit
11 Feb 2017
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Directly elected by voters in nationally-organized elections. Headed by a president, newly approved antonio tajani (epp) Decision-making procedures: co-decisions ep and com have full powers; must reconcile differences. Ep has most power, starts to look like a powerful legislation, can amend and reject. When eu upper house passes law the two (eu upper house and ep) must come together to get law approved: coordination has a veto on legislation but no allowance for proposing amendments. Ep to (cid:272)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)il: if you do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, (cid:449)e (cid:449)ill (cid:448)ote (cid:374)o. Yes or no decision that gives them some decision-making power: consultation may approve or disapprove laws but com not bound by result. Ministers can do whatever they want after consultation. Ep elections not related to national elections. National political parties are running candidates for the seats for european parliament. Directly elected by voters, elections organized by each member state why monetary union? (euro) Facilitates single market: increase efficiency and competition, cut costs.
