Trilogues : the democratic secret of European legislation / Giacomo Rugge, Council of the European Union.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugge, Giacomo, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in European law and policy.

Cambridge studies in European law and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislation--European Union countries.

Legislation.

Democracy--European Union countries.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The events of the last ten years have shaken the "permissive consensus" that kept the European integration process going for many years. 'Output democracy', as based on decisions presumably meeting the needs of the citizens, is no longer enough to obtain public support. Never before has a process-oriented approach to European democracy been more urgent. This book aims to address this urgency, by providing an account of the European legislative process that is less conventional and does justice to the democratic potential inherent in trilogues. In particular, this book provides: a comprehensive reconstruction of the workings of trilogues, relying on internal documents collected through a series of access to documents requests; gives meaning to the legal notion of informality, understood as one of the most defining, although elusive, features of trilogues; squares the practice of trilogues with the European democratic order of the Treaties, showing that such a practice is compatible with a model of 'negotiation democracy'.

Contents:

A historical reconstruction

Setting the stage : the European institutional triangle

Unpacking the law and practice of trilogues

Trilogues : informality meets positive law

Inter-chamber coordination in a comparative perspective

Trilogues and European democracy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009445214

1009445219

9781009445238

1009445235

9781009445245

1009445243