The Politics of the European Communities: The Confederal Phase

• DOI: 10.2307/2010124
• Publication Date: 2006-07-21T13:25:02Z
• Authors: Paul Taylor
• Keywords: European commission

In the Confederal phase of integration in European Communities since 1969, governments on one hand have been confirmed as essential actors because way which decisions are taken and their reaction to growing range interdependencies among member states. On other hand, they compelled enter into alliances with within state: lost some traditional powers authority, nongovernmental increased theirs; Commission reflects these changes abandoning its claim be a government embryo. Consequently, tend oscillate, policies toward each other, between advanced schemes for reassertion separate interests.