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

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Agencies, Co-Regulation and Comitology - and what about politics ? a critical appraisal of the Commission's White Paper on Governance

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Philipp Steinberg ^*

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

• I. The need to politicise the Community Method
• II. Governance through civil society?
• III. The lack of political parties as actors of civil society
• IV. The need to initiate political discourse, the role of Political Parties and the WhitePaper's contribution
  • 1. Discourse and Political Parties
  • 2. Some of the White Paper's propositions and their contributions to political discourse
    • a. Politicisation: the need to strengthen the majoritarian approach
    • b. The role of the open method of co-ordination for politicisation of the Union
    • c. No replacement of comitology without compensation
    • d. Regulatory agencies and politicisation
      • aa. A certain interpretation of System Theory
      • bb. The Regulatory State
      • cc. Structural Argumentation
      • dd. Output legitimacy alone is not sufficient
  • 3. Why the Commission?
• V. European Governance through politicised networks

** Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law, Berlin. This paper is an amended and extended version of a contribution to a conference hosted by the Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration: The Governance White Paper of the Commission, Berlin, 18.-19. October 2001.

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© Philipp Steinberg 2001