Efficiency versus accountability

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Chapter 12 in EU Trade Law, 2024, pp 403-418 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides an analysis of the tension in the decision-making processes in EU commercial policy. It further provides an analysis of why the EU has been criticized for its commercial policy, for being unable to negotiate without internal agreement, and for being incapable of negotiating with one voice. I will focus now on the challenges in attaining a coherent and accountable EU trade policy. EU trade policy would be more coherent if more power were to be given to the European Commission. Thus, the main tension in the EU trade policy decision-making process (efficiency versus accountability) will be analyzed. We will see that being more transparent and more internally accountable implies less efficiency in decision-making. I will focus on the difficulties of having unanimity in the EU Council in an enlarged EU of over 30 Member States; thus, the need to have qualified-majority voting in the EU Council to avoid Europaralysis in EU trade policy-making for services trade and the commercial aspects of intellectual property rights.

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Date: 2024
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