Gerda Falkner

Publications of Gerda Falkner

• Enlarging the European Union: The Short-Term Success of Incrementalism and De-Politicisation

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, MPIfG Discussion and Working Papers. 01/2000;

  Abstract This paper analyses the most important issues of the EU enlargement process. We first discuss an empirical paradox involved in enlargement: the obvious development of the original EuropeanAbstract This paper analyses the most important issues of the EU enlargement process. We first discuss an empirical paradox involved in enlargement: the obvious development of the original European Communities into a Union with important supranational features and ever more policy clout has by no means discouraged aspirant member states. Why is it that more and more states are willing to give up much of their otherwise cherished national sovereignty by joining this Union, knowing that even more sovereignty will be eroded over time? Then we address the major challenges the EU has to face before actually widening any further, in particular concerning financial and institutional issues as well as internal and external boundaries. The concluding section discusses implicit and explicit EU enlargement strategies of past and present times. We argue that there is a danger that the incrementalist and de-politicised character of the recent enlargement (non-)discussions are successful only in the short term while actually being rather dangerous in the longer run.

• European Union: Democratic Perspectives After 1996

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  01/1995; Service Fachverlag.

• Das Demokratiedefizit der EG und die Beschlüsse von Maastricht 1992

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. 01/1992;

  Abriß der Debatte zum Thema Demokratiedefizit der Europäischen Gemeinschaft einschließlich des Versuchs diesen Begriff zu definieren bzw zu operationalisieren; Darstellung der Ansätze einerAbriß der Debatte zum Thema Demokratiedefizit der Europäischen Gemeinschaft einschließlich des Versuchs diesen Begriff zu definieren bzw zu operationalisieren; Darstellung der Ansätze einer Beseitigung dieses Defizits durch den Maastrichter Vertrag über die Europäische Union; politikwissenschaftliche Bewertung. Fachgebiet: Europäische Integration

• Eurovisionen

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  01/1991;

• Intergovernmental Conference 1996: Which Constitution for the Union?

  Authors: Michael Nentwich, Gerda Falkner

  This paper addresses the five major structural issues on the agenda of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) of the Member States of the European Union: the option of replacing the treatyThis paper addresses the five major structural issues on the agenda of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) of the Member States of the European Union: the option of replacing the treaty framework by a European constitution; the issue of fundamental rights in the Union; the future of the three-pillar structure; the puzzling question of how to allow for variations in European integration without endangering unity; and, finally, the political `evergreen' of the division of competencies between the Union and its Member States. The analysis is based on the contributions by EC institutions and a series of prominent (groups of) experts and scholars which were published before the political bargaining started with the establishment of the so-called reflection group preparing the formal agenda of the conference.

• Die institutionelle Reformdiskussion im Vorfeld der EU-Regierungskonferenz 1996 = The debate about institutional reform in the wake of the EU intergovernmental conference 1996

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  The paper reviews a series of official and semi-official contributions in the wake of the intergovernmental conference 1996. It is focussing on institutional and procedural issues.

• The Treaty of Amsterdam: Towards a New Institutional Balance

  Authors: Michael Nentwich, Gerda Falkner

  European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 1 (1997), No. 15.

  This paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum ofThis paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum of envisaged changes will considerably alter the institutional balance between the three main actors, i.e. the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. The latter, in particular, will have an increased influence vis-Ã -vis the Commission (via the investiture procedure) and a greater say vis-Ã -vis the Council (in the codecision procedure). With regard to the internal organisation of the three institutions, too, remarkable changes are on the horizon. The roles of the Committee of the Regions and of the national parliaments in EC policy-making have been consolidated and clarified respectively. We conclude with an overall assessment of the results of the IGC 1996/97. The paper includes a synopsis of all Treaty changes in the procedural field, and a graph presenting the new codecision procedure.

• Nach Amsterdam: Ist die neue institutionelle Balance "erweiterungsfest"?

  Authors: Michael Nentwich, Gerda Falkner

  Europäische Leitbilder, 119-136 (2001).

• The Treaty of Amsterdam: Facts, Analysis, Prospects

  Authors: Stefan Griller, Dimitri P. Droutsas, Gerda Falkner, Katrin Forgó, Michael Nentwich

  Schriftenreihe des Forschungsinstituts für Europafragen der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, v.15 (2000).

• The Amsterdam Treaty: The Blueprint for the Future Institutional Balance?

  Authors: Gerda Falkner, Michael Nentwich

  European Integration after Amsterdam, 15-35 (2000).

• Regierungskonferenz 1996 - der Vertrag von Amsterdam in der Fassung des Gipfels vom Juni 1997

  Authors: Stefan Griller, Dimitri Droutsas, Gerda Falkner, Katrin Forgo, Michael Nentwich

  Kein Autorenreferat vorhanden.

• Regierungskonferenz 1996 - der Vertragsentwurf der irischen Präsidentschaft

  Authors: Stefan Griller, Dimitri Droutsas, Gerda Falkner, Katrin Forgo, Michael Nentwich

  Kein Autorenreferat vorhanden.