Conclusion to Special Issue on the Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance: The Treaty of Nice, Institutional Balance, and Uncertainty

In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 393-411

Abstract

Debates about institution building within the European Union focus on how national power & transnational representation & accountability should be organized institutionally within the context of regionalism. An "institutional balance" allows the EU to benefit from administrative capacity & the representation of both national executives & national electorates while not being transformed into either a transnational political system or a traditional federation. The Treaty of Nice laid the groundwork for enlargement by reexamining issues of representation that had previously been accepted as givens. In so doing, the member states made clear that the evolution of the EU was going to be subject to uncertainty & institutional fluidity. 30 References. Adapted from the source document.