Why Defend Something I Don’t Agree with? Conflicts within the Commission and Legislative Amendments in Trilogues

Autor: Thomas Laloux, Lara Panning

Publikováno v: Politics and Governance, Vol 9, Iss 3, Pp 40-51 (2021)

This article aims to examine the effect of intra-institutional conflicts in the European Commission on the extent of changes made to legislative proposals in trilogue negotiations. We develop and test three hypotheses related to how conflicts within

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Slow adapters or active players? Belgian regional parliamentarians and European affairs after Lisbon

Autor: François Randour, Peter Bursens, Thomas Laloux

Publikováno v: The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. online first (2022)
The journal of legislative studies

How do members of regional parliaments engage in EU policymaking? This paper examines how and why members of the Walloon, Flemish and Brussels regional parliaments vary in their EU-contacting activities, by adapting a German survey. Belgium makes a r

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2022.2077026

Talkin’ ‘bout a Negotiation: (Un)Transparent Rapporteurs’ Speeches in the European Parliament

Autor: Thomas Laloux, Damien Pennetreau

Publikováno v: Politics and Governance, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 248-260 (2021)
Politics and Governance, Vol. 9, no. 1, p. 248–260 (2021)
Politics and Governance
Access or Excess? Redefining the Boundaries of Transparency in the EU's Decision-Making

For policies to be legitimate, both the policy process and the underlying reasons must be transparent to the public. In the EU, the lion’s share of legislation is nowadays negotiated in informal secluded meeting called trilogues. Therefore, present

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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3823

How much do agents in trilogues deviate from their principals’ instructions? Introducing a deviation index

Autor: Tom Delreux, Thomas Laloux

Publikováno v: Journal of European Public Policy. 25:1049-1067

This article presents a newly developed ‘deviation index’ to measure, in a quantitative and standardized way, the extent to which the negotiators in trilogues (the rapporteur and the rotating Presidency) deviate from the instructions of the insti

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1428215

Agency slack as cause of deviation in trilogue negotiations

Autor: Thomas Laloux

Publikováno v: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 28, no. 1, p. 132-151 (2021)

Trilogues are the main forum for legislative negotiation in the EU. In trilogues, each co-legislator is represented by negotiators, who therefore play a central role in the current EU legislative process. This paper examines whether trilogues enable

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