Britain and European integration: The view from within

Political Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-317

  Menon, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3142697256     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2004.00613.x     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. J. W. de Zwann, The Permanent Representatives Committee: Its Role in European Union Decision-Making, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1995, p. 25.
2. Ibid.; M. Westlake, The Council of the European Union, London, Cartermill International, 1995.
3. Ibid.; M. Westlake, The Council of the European Union, London, Cartermill International, 1995.
4. L. Barber, "The men who run Europe', Financial Times, 11-12 March 1995.
5. For detailed discussions see V. Wright "The national co-ordination of European policy-making: negotiating the quagmire', in J. Richardson (ed.), The European Union: Policy and Power, London, Routledge, 1997; H. Kassim, 'Introduction: Coordinating national action in Brussels', in H. Kassim, A. Menon, B. G. Peters and V. Wright (eds), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy: The European Level, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
6. For detailed discussions see V. Wright "The national co-ordination of European policy-making: negotiating the quagmire', in J. Richardson (ed.), The European Union: Policy and Power, London, Routledge, 1997; H. Kassim, 'Introduction: Coordinating national action in Brussels', in H. Kassim, A. Menon, B. G. Peters and V. Wright (eds), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy: The European Level, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
7. A. Menon and V. Wright, "The paradoxes of "failure": British EU policy making in comparative perspective', Public Administration and Public Policy, vol. 13, no. 4, 1998. See also H. Kassim 'The United Kingdom', in H. Kassim, B. G. Peters and V. Wright (eds), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy Making: The Domestic Level, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
8. A. Menon and V. Wright, "The paradoxes of "failure": British EU policy making in comparative perspective', Public Administration and Public Policy, vol. 13, no. 4, 1998. See also H. Kassim 'The United Kingdom', in H. Kassim, B. G. Peters and V. Wright (eds), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy Making: The Domestic Level, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
9. H. Kassim, 'The United Kingdom'.
10. 'COREPER' is the commonly used acronym derived from the French Comité des Représentants Permanents.
11. COREPER is in fact two separate institutions-COREPER I and COREPER II. The former is attended by the Deputy Permanent Representatives. The distribution of dossiers between the two is decided upon by the President of COREPER IIthat is, by the Permanent Representative to the EU of the member state holding the Presidency of the Council. Whilst the precise remit of these committees has evolved over time, it is generally the case that COREPER I deals with more technical issues, whilst COREPER II handles the more sensitive Council formations.
12. Westlake, The Council of the European Union, p. 285.
13. See de Zwann, The Permanent Representatives Committee, pp. 25-70; Westlake, ibid., pp. 285-307, F. Hayes-Renshaw and H. Wallace, The Council of Ministers, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 72-84.
14. See de Zwann, The Permanent Representatives Committee, pp. 25-70; Westlake, ibid., pp. 285-307, F. Hayes-Renshaw and H. Wallace, The Council of Ministers, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 72-84.
15. See de Zwann, The Permanent Representatives Committee, pp. 25-70; Westlake, ibid., pp. 285-307, F. Hayes-Renshaw and H. Wallace, The Council of Ministers, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 72-84.
16. J. Lewis, "The Methods of Community in EU decision-making and administrative rivalry in the Council's infrastructure', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2000, p. 263.
17. H. Kassim 'Introduction: Coordinating National Action in Brussels', p. 24.
18. L. Barber, "The men who run Europe'. Note Helen Wallace's comment that '[n]ot only do the Representations represent and bargain on behalf of their governments but they have also become part of the Community system itself, National Governments and the European Communities, London, Chatham House and PEP, 1973, p. 56.
19. Lewis, "The Methods of Community in EU decision-making', p. 266.
20. Ibid., p. 261.
21. S. George, An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.
22. Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair, London, Macmillan, 1998.
23. [Editor's note] To put this into context, it should be remembered that amongst Sir John's other postings were stints as Ambassador in Washington, Permanent Under-Secretary in the Foreign Commonwealth Office, and Secretary General of the Convention on the Future of Europe.
24. Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot.
25. According to John Grant in his contribution to this collection, the staff of UKRep now numbers some 140-in comparison with 80 to 90 less than 10 years ago.
26. Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Christian Lequesne and Pedro Mayor Lopez, 'The permanent representations of the Member States to the European Communities', Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, December 1989, p. 130.
27. P. Hogwood, C. Carter, S. Bulmer, M. Burch and A. Scott, 'Devolution and EU policy making: the territorial challenge', Public Policy and Administration, vol. 15, no. 2, 2000, pp. 85-6.
28. Cited in G. Edwards, 'Central government', in S. George (ed.), Britain and the European Community: The Politics of SemiDetachment, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. 74.
29. For a discussion of this point see H. Derlien, 'Germany: failing successfully', in H. Kassim et al. (eds), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy: The Domestic Level.
30. See A. Menon, 'Leading from behind: Britain and the EU's constitutional treaty', Notre Europe, January 2004, available at: http://www.notre-europe.asso. fr/
31. One Permanent Representative informed me that, during a discussion of the disappointing outcome of the Amsterdam IGC, his French colleague had turned to the German representative and castigated him for representing a country in which the Lander exercised so much power over Federal Government negotiators. To which the latter responded, to general hilarity, that it had been the French who had insisted on the creation of a weakened, decentralised Germany in the first place (Interview, Brussels, 2000).
32. In the question and answer session that followed the presentations by the Ambassadors, Neil Kinnock reinforced this point, referring to the 'significant impact made on the whole context of conduct and diplomacy [within the EU] by the development of the European Parliament'.
33. See H. Kassim and B. G. Peters, 'Conclusion: Co-ordinating national action in Brussels-a comparative perspective' in H. Kassim et al. (eds), The National Coordination of EU Policy: The European Level.
34. For a discussion of recent attempts by the three to exercise leadership over the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), see A. Menon, 'From crisis to catharsis: ESDP after Iraq', International Affairs, July 2004.
35. Kassim and Peters, 'Conclusion: Coordinating national action in Brussels-a comparative perspective', p. 331.
36. Though see R. Denman, 'Blair's missed chance', Prospect, May 1998.
37. Tony Blair, 'A clear course for Europe', Cardiff, 28 November 2002, available at http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Pagel739.asp