Committee Of The Regions Research Articles

The committee of the regions: In at the birth

(1997). The committee of the regions: In at the birth. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 7, The European Union's Committee of the Regions, pp. 5-10.

Opinion formulation and impact in the committee of the regions

(1997). Opinion formulation and impact in the committee of the regions. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 7, The European Union's Committee of the Regions, pp. 23-49.

Representing regions in Europe: The committee of the regions

(1996). Representing regions in Europe: The committee of the regions. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 6, The Regional Dimension of the European Union Towards a Third Level in Europe?, pp. 147-165.

Interview: Rome, sustainable city

International Social Science JournalVolume 48, Issue 147 p. 103-106 Interview: Rome, sustainable city Francesco Rutelli, Francesco Rutelli Francesco Rutelli, Mayor of Rome and a member of the Italian Green Party, was elected in December 1993. He is also President of the Committee of the Regions, European Union Commission on Urban Policy in Brussels and an active leader of the campaign ‘Sustainable Cities’ and in the application of ‘Agenda 21’ particularly in the Mediterranean region. Address: Comune di Roma, Via del Campidoglio, Rome 00186.Search for more papers by this author Francesco Rutelli, Francesco Rutelli Francesco Rutelli, Mayor of Rome and a member of the Italian Green Party, was elected in December 1993. He is also President of the Committee of the Regions, European Union Commission on Urban Policy in Brussels and an active leader of the campaign ‘Sustainable Cities’ and in the application of ‘Agenda 21’ particularly in the Mediterranean region. Address: Comune di Roma, Via del Campidoglio, Rome 00186.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.1996.tb00061.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume48, Issue147March 1996Pages 103-106 RelatedInformation

Second Thoughts on Europe's "Third Level": The European Union's Committee of the Regions

The Maastricht Treaty provided for a consultative Committee of the Regions to bring the European Union's third level into the deliberation of legislation. It began to operate in early 1994. This article assesses its creation and recent activity against the expectations and demands that were expressed at the outset, looking in turn at the representative, advisory, and symbolic functions the new body can perform. What emerges is a largely symbolic body that suffers from entrenched internal divisions and functional overreach in the absence of any real influence on the Union's policymaking process. The danger is a downward spiral of progressive obscurity and the frustration of its members' aspirations.

The Committee of the Regions: Europe and British Local Government

The Committee of the Regions: Europe and British Local Government

Whither the committee of the regions? Reflections on the committee's ‘opinion on the revision of the treaty on European union’

Whither the committee of the regions? Reflections on the committee's ‘opinion on the revision of the treaty on European union’

The powers of regional and local authorities and their role in the European Union

Summary The deepening of the Community has led to a crucial change in the position of the regional and local authorities in the overall structure. The most striking features of this new role of the subnational level are: • their increasing direct involvement and integration under general and specific Community policies; • their growing participation in the EC decision‐making process as a contribution to the elimination of the democratic deficit and to the achievement of greater closeness to the citizen within the framework of a subsidiary structure of the European Union; • the need, given the challenges posed by the internal market, for more regional and local initiative to help improve the quality of these levels as locations. How far the territorial authorities will be able to play this new, enlarged role will very much depend on the quality of their institutional infrastructure and their ability to take action. The comparative analysis reveals, however, that the tasks of the territorial authorities in ...

Communication From The Commission To the Council and the European Parliament and to the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions

Communication From The Commission To the Council and the European Parliament and to the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions

The Committee Of The Regions And Scottish Self-Government: A German Perspective

With the creation of a Committee of the Regions in Article 198 of the Maastricht Treaty, substate government was for the first time officially acknowledged as part of the European Union decision-making system. Apart from this general perception, the discourse on any specific implication of this new body has remained very much fragmented. This is mainly due to the heterogenous structures of substate government in EU member states. THE SCOTTISH CONTEXT In Scotland the perspective is shaped by an important additional dimension. Since the late 1980s the debate on the European integration process has increasingly been related to the constitutional question (Keating and Jones 1991). The European Union has frequently been envisaged as an alternative multi-national framework allowing for Scottish self-government, either in the form of an independent state or in a Europe of the Regions, where the nationstate has lost its hegemonic power. In the emerging muli-level system of governance (Marks 1993), Scotland, as a territorial substate unit, is subjected to a double integration by the United Kingdom and the European Union. As empirical evidence shows, this system has by no means fully eroded the political capacity of the nation-state, but it did lead to the theoretical insight that territorial self-government can no longer be measured in terms of absolute sovereignty. In a globalised and highly interdependent world, the relative degree of territorial selfgovernment, whether on the state or substate level, will be determined by two analytically distinct components:

Towards a European urban policy

Summary In the face of some opposition from those who plead subsidiarity as the central plank of European policies, the emergence of an urban dimension to European policies has been significant in the last five years. Now, reinforced by a research base, with the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions providing a political route to influence, and with a modest programme of experimentation in urban projects in progress, the “urban” appears genuinely fixed on the political agenda of Europe. From a UK perspective the substance of the programmes is limited; small in scale and following many of the lines established within City Challenge or the Urban Partnerships, the new European urban initiatives are substantively modest and marginal. Much more important is the symbolic importance of a European urban perspective. This gives impetus to the policy debate at both European and national levels with the Commission's Community Initiative directing attention not simply to growing polarisation, marginali...

The committee of the regions: The outset of a ‘Europe of the regions’?

The committee of the regions: The outset of a ‘Europe of the regions’?