GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Decision-Making, Treaty Establishing A Constitution For Europe
7 Dec 2015
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Eu institutions- the eu executive : european commission. The executive branch of the eu or the european bureaucracy . Three eu lawmaking bodies: european council. Where most authority of eu is held/ decisions made (because gathering of world leaders) Based on issue-area: council of ministers, european parliament. Limited (but expanding) legislative power, does not have typical lawmaking powers. The eu judiciary: european court of justice (ecj) most powerful branch. Has unique powers to overrule national laws that conflict with eu laws (ex: cassis de dijon case, 1979) Major issues facing the eu: common foreign and security policy. War in iraq, immigration as most recent exxamples of division: (lack of) eu constitution, possible withdrawals. Domestic actors and ir (individuals, groups: our focus this week (on individuals, groups, and domestic politics) reflects two themes, the increasing importance of actors at the. Domestic ( and individual/group) level of analysis: the need to study.
