The Council of the EU is a powerful institution whose centrality has been challenged by the Treaty of Lisbon. More than ten years after this major institutional revision, this book examines its role within the EU political regime and its interactions with other institutions. It explores how the Council Presidency has navigated major crises over the past decade and addressed internal challenges. The various chapters discuss key timely questions: How has the relationship between the Council and the European Council evolved over time? To what extent have the recent crises reshaped the relationship between the Council and the European Parliament, as well as its interactions with the Commission? Is the Council Presidency still a powerful mediator? What are its internal challenges? What are the prospects for the rotating presidency system?
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Council Presidency in EU studies: what have
we learned and what has changed in the decade of crises?.
Chapter 2:
Theorising the presidency of the Council.
Chapter
3. The legal regime
applicable to the Council Presidency: competing conceptual approaches and
pragmatic solutions.
Chapter
4. The Procedural Legacy of Two Years of
Covid-19 pandemic. How the Temporary Modification of the Councils Rules of
Procedure Became Permanent.
Chapter
5. The 2009 transition from the rotating
to the permanent presidency of the European Council.
Chapter
6. The European
Council and the rotating EU Council Presidency: patterns of cooperation and
rivalry beyond the formal treaty rules.
Chapter 7.From mediator to crisis
manager: evolving relationship between the Council Presidencies and the
European Parliament in times of crisis.
Chapter
8. The Commission is always
ready to help: the ambiguous relationship between the European Commission
and the Council Presidency in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure.
Chapter
9.
Presiding in the shadows. The rotating Council Presidencies as structures of
opportunity for the legitimization of the European Union.
Chapter
10. Still
the Dealmaker? The Council Presidency in EMU Michele Chang and Raquel Ugarte
Dķez.
Chapter
11. Article 7 TEU on the agendas of the Councils rotating
presidencies: Still a nuclear option or rather a talking shop?.
Chapter
12. How does the Council legitimise the EUs response to international
crises? Emotion Discourse Analysis of the High Representatives
communications on Russias war of aggression.
Chapter
13. Does the
Presidency of the Council still have the means to achieve its ambitions? The
French Presidency 2022 and the promotion of EU sovereignty.
Chapter
14.
Rotating Presidencies, Rotating Sponsors? Corporate Sponsorship of the
Presidencies of the Council of the EU under Scrutiny.
Chapter
15.
Conclusion. The rotating presidency of the Council: a major actorof the EU
that is here to stay.
Ramona Coman is Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, member of the CEVIPOL and Emeritus President of the Institut détudes européennes, Belgium.
Olivier Costa is Research Professor at the CNRS, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po (Paris), France.
Vivien Sierens is a Belgian diplomat. Holder of a PhD in political and social sciences (ULB & VUB), he is also an associate researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (CEVIPOL), Belgium.
