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No D/503: New governance of Europe: Parliamentary or presidential?, The

Gerard Roland ()
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Gerard Roland: University of California, Berkeley

Abstract: This paper discusses the main issues at stake in the Convention preparing a Constitutional Treaty for Europe. It builds on recent work in political economics to discuss the trade-offs between the parliamentary and the presidential model of democracy for legislative and executive activity in areas of competence of an enlarged EU. It argues in favor of a presidential model in the context of the EU with the president being elected by national parliaments.

Keywords: EU governance; parliamentary system; presidential system; commission president; convention future Europe

25 pages, April 2, 2003

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