The pitfalls of parliamentarisation: why the procedure of appointing the European Commission should be changed
The pitfalls of parliamentarisation: why the procedure of appointing the European Commission should be changed
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议会化的陷阱：为何应改变欧盟委员会的任命程序
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2014
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Frank Decker
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Frank Decker
2014年欧洲选举后，欧洲议会成功夺取了从欧盟国家元首和政府首脑中选举委员会主席的权力。然而，这种民主进步尚未在随后选举其他委员的过程中找到对应的内容。一方面，所有 28 个成员国享有平等代表权阻碍了将委员会缩减到更可行的规模。另一方面，由于提名委员的权利完全属于各国政府，委员会的组成主要反映了安理会的党派多数，而不是议会的多数，导致委员会的组成有限地反映了总统的职权。以下文章探讨了如何解决这些问题。它提议对平等原则进行适度修改，以缩小委员会的规模，扩大委员会的候选人名单，并由欧洲公民选举候选人。最后一项提议甚至可以在不对条约进行任何修改的情况下实施。
After the European elections of 2014, the European Parliament managed to seize the power to select the Commission president from the EU heads of state and government. This democratic advance, however, is yet to find its counterpart in the subsequent process of selecting the other commissioners. For one thing, the entitlement to equal representation of all 28 member states hinders any reduction of the Commission to a more workable size. For another, because the right to nominate commissioners rests solely with the national governments, the composition of the Commission primarily reflects the partisan majorities of the Council rather than those of the Parliament, leading to a limited reflection of the president’s mandate in the composition of the Commission. The following article examines how these problems could be resolved. It proposes a moderate amendment to the parity principle to reduce the Commission’s size, a larger pool of candidates from which to select commissioners and the election of candidates by European citizens. The last proposal could even be implemented without any change to the treaties.