Treaty of Amsterdam - Institutional Implications

 
   

LITERATURE

 		 
   

CONCLUSION

 		 
    The European Parliament  
    The Council of the European Union  
    Commission  
    National Parliaments  
    Work Remaining to be completed  
   

INTRODUCTION

 		 
   

NATO AND EU ENLARGEMENTS: LINKAGE?

 		 
   

THE DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURE BEFORE THE TREATY OF AMSTERDAM

 		 
    The European Parliament  
    The Council of the European Union    
    European Commission  
   

PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE ATTEMPTED REFORM

 		 
    Nation States - Sovereignty vs. Integration  
    Question of Relative Power  
    Effectiveness of the Decision-Making Processes  
   

TREATY OF AMSTERDAM

 		 
    The Treaty of Amsterdam by the Intergovernmental Conference 1996-97  
    The Agenda 2000  
   

THE FUTURE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

 		 
    The European Parliament's New Competences: Towards Parliamentary Democracy  
    The New Codecision Procedure: Towards an Equal Footing  
    The Nomination of the Commission: Towards Party Politics?  
    The EP and Future Enlargement: Towards Representativeness  
    Further changes in the role of the European Parliament  
   

THE FUTURE OF THE COMMISSION: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT?

 		 
    The College of Commissioners  
    The Internal Organization of the Commission  
   

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

 		 
    Decision-Making in the Council: ˛Amsterdam Compromise˛ and more  
    Limited Extension of the Qualified Majority Voting  
    The transfer from unanimous to majority voting  
    The Reweighting of votes in the Council  
   

THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS

 		 
    The Role of the National Parliaments  
    The Protocol on the Role of National Parliaments in the European Union  
   

Appendix 1 The list of new areas to which the co-decision procedure applies

 		 
   

Appendix 2 Proportional distribution of seats in the EP with a minimum of three

Proportial distribution of seats in the EP with a minimum of three seats (EU 15)