Symposium:
Mountain or Molehill?
A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

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"Economic Order" - "Technical Realization" - "The Hour of the Executive": Some Legal Historical Observations on the
Commission White Paper on European Governance ^*

German Version

Christian Joerges ^**

This paper is a part of contributions to the Jean Monnet Working Paper
No.6/01, Symposium: Mountain or Molehill? A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Legal justifications for transnational governance structures: a retrospective survey of German traditions
  • 2.1. Ordo-liberalism: the unity of national and European economic rationality
  • 2.2. The disjunction between the "organised economy" and European technocracy
  • 2.3. The "hour of the executive"?
• 3. "Good Governance" according to the Commission White Paper
  • 3.1. Governance as key concept
  • 3.2. Executive agencies?
  • 3.3. Critique of comitology
• 4. Objections

* Contribution to the White Paper conference of the Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration, 18-19 October 2001 in Berlin.
Translated by Iain L. Fraser

** Florence/Bremen

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