The Council and enlargement : a challenge or an opportunity?

Hayes-Renshaw, Fiona (author)

The article reviews and outlines the challenges the Council of the European Union has been and is still facing today, especially as regards the efficiency and transparency of decision-making. A special emphasis is put on organisational challenge, e.g. the question of how to effectively deal with the multiplicity of languages, meet demands as regards transparency, and to ensure maintaining efficiency in decision-making, especially in view of the forthcoming major rounds of enlargement.

• Language: English
• Keywords: European union, decision-making, transparency, efficiency, enlargement
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.04 - Professional Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2001
• Number of pages: Str. 9-12, 85, 87
• Numbering: Vol. 4, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135756
• UDC: 327:061.1EU
• ISSN on article: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 20629597
• Publication date in RUL: 30.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of international relations and development
• Shortened title: J. int. relat. & dev.
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre of International Relations
• ISSN: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76065792

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Svet Evropske unije in širitev

Abstract

Članek povzema in prikazuje izzive, s katerimi se je in se še srečuje Svet Evropske unije, še posebej izzive učinkovitosti in preglednosti pri odločanju. Posebej poudarja organizacijski izziv: na primer vprašanja, kako učinkovito obvladati množico jezikov; zadostiti zahtevam po preglednosti in kako zagotoviti ohranjanje učinkovitosti odločanja v luči prihodnjih krogov širitve.

• Keywords: Evropska unija, odločanje, preglednost, učinkovitost, širitev