The Intergovernmental Conferences and the EU Institutional Reform
The Intergovernmental Conferences and the EU Institutional Reform

Author(s): Dorin Ioan Dolghi
Subject(s): EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Publishing Inc. European Readings & Prodifmultimedia/Editura Napoca Star
Summary/Abstract: One of the major challenges of the European Union was and remains its institutional reform in the perspective of accepting new members and extending to more than 27 states. The mechanisms of representation and decision-making process, outlined between the Rome Treaty (25 March 1957) and the Maastricht Treaty (7 February 1992), were based on an accommodation to later enlargements of the institutional system. Thus, the institutional challenges of the Union, which followed the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, consisted in the attempts to solve two major issues. … In order to emphasize the implication of the institutional reforms in the perspective of the EU enlargement, we resorted to the analysis of the implications given by the IGC results regarding the most important issues: the share of the votes within the Council of Ministers, the decision- making process, the extension of using the qualified majority vote, the size and composition of the Commission and the role and composition of the European Parliament.

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