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Nice Results: The Millennium IGC in the EU's Evolution
Author(s) -
Wessels Wolfgang
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5965.00285
Subject(s) - nice , treaty , constitution , perspective (graphical) , political science , corporate governance , process (computing) , law and economics , economics , law , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , programming language , operating system
Analysing the Treaty of Nice from a dynamic perspective we observe that the major decisions on institutions and procedures are part of an historical evolution of the EU's ‘legal constitution’; in quantitative terms the Nice results extended fundamental trends of the European process over the last 50 years. By increasing the complexity of the procedures and the modes of governance, the masters of the Treaty have again taken decisions according to a pattern which I characterize as a three‐step model of ‘ratchet fusion’.