By Simon Hix
Political events within the ecu Union offers a finished review of the significance of occasion politics to the functioning of the ecu Union which the authors argue has usually been underestimated. Incorporating a lot new examine fabric it covers not just the transnational social gathering teams within the eu Parliament but additionally the individuals within the ecu Council and Council of Ministers who, the authors remind us, are usually not simply representatives of 'national pursuits' but in addition celebration politicians.
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Chapter 7 will show how, in constructing party activities outside the EP, parties at the European level began by imitating the classic function of extra-parliamentary parties, that of coordinating electoral 20 Political Parties in the European Union programmes, only to find that the EU's distinctive institutional environment made it sensible for the transnational party federations to concentrate on a task that has no parallel in national politics: that of coordinating the positions of party leaders prior to meetings of the EU's main agenda-setting body, the European Council.
Conversely, a combination of a directly elected parliament (1979), its empowerment by the Single European Act (1986) and Introduction 15 Maastricht Treaties ( 1992), and the curtailment of the national veto on the Council has meant that parties that are good at organising themselves transnationally will receive certain pay-offs that may be denied to others. Yet, institutional change has so far been lopsided in the kind of transnational party activity that it has catalysed. The experience of 1979 to 1996 would seem to suggest that there is a threshold between elite and mass politics that parties are unable- or unwilling - to cross in the transnationalisation of their activities.
There is an absence of political contestation ~ of sharp delineations between parties of government and opposition ~ that is so important for political parties to differentiate themselves and become relevant in the eyes of the public. Brigid Laffan, for example, writes of a 'blurring of the left~right divide' and ofEU 'governance structures' that serve to dilute political preferences because an all-party Commission faces an all-party Council and Parliament (Laffan, 1996, p. 93). The argument of this book is that 'naive' and 'sceptical' assessments are equally unsatisfactory, for neither can resolve the central paradox of party politics in the EU.
