Going Solo: Direct Regional Representation in the European Union
Going Solo: Direct Regional Representation in the European Union
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单独行动：在欧盟的直接区域代表
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2008
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M. Tatham
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M. Tatham
本文旨在规划出欧盟直接代表区域利益的路线。它确定了各地区可利用的六个主要机会结构：地区委员会、部长理事会、欧洲委员会、欧洲议会、布鲁塞尔地区办事处以及欧洲网络和协会。本文使用原始采访材料，分析了每条路线如何以及在什么条件下最有效地代表区域利益。报告的结论是，虽然这些机会结构并没有像 20 世纪 90 年代的一些文献所预测的那样引发“地区欧洲”的出现，但它们确实代表了地区可以用来影响欧盟政策进程的重要准入渠道。这些区域准外交活动绕过了欧盟成员国，因此挑战了自由政府间主义关于欧盟政治性质的假设。
This article seeks to map out routes of direct regional interest representation in the European Union. It identifies six main opportunity structures available to regions: the Committee of the Regions, the Council of Ministers, the Commission, the European Parliament, regional Brussels offices and European networks and associations. Using original interview material, the article analyses how and under what conditions each route can be most efficient for regional interest representation. It concludes that though these opportunity structures have not triggered the emergence of a ‘Europe of the Regions’ as some of the literature in the 1990s had predicted, they do represent important channels of access that regions can use in an attempt to influence the EU policy process. These regional para-diplomatic activities bypass EU member states and consequently challenge liberal intergovernmentalist assumptions regarding the nature of EU politics.