Portugal and the European Union

Abstract

The previous chapters have discussed the growing influence the European institutions are having on the Portuguese political system. Here a general assessment will be made of the Europeanisation of the Portuguese political system. Recently John Peterson stated that the European Union is already a political system, comprising different levels of policy decision making and formulation at the supranational level (Peterson, 1995). This has also been emphasised by Gary Marks, who speaks of a ‘multilevel governance’ with different levels of decision making (Marks, 1993).KeywordsCommon Agricultural PolicyStructural FundUruguay RoundSupranational LevelParliamentary CommitteeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.