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New Parliament, New Cleavages after the Eastern Enlargement? The Conflict over the Services Directive as an Opposition between the Liberals and the Regulators
Author(s) -
CRESPY AMANDINE,
GAJEWSKA KATARZYNA
Publication year - 2010
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/j.1468-5965.2010.02109.x
Subject(s) - parliament , opposition (politics) , directive , resizing , political science , politics , cleavage (geology) , political economy , negotiation , law , law and economics , sociology , european union , international trade , economics , engineering , geotechnical engineering , fracture (geology) , computer science , programming language
This article analyses the parliamentary debates and decision‐making related to the highly contentious EU directive on services. It is intended as a contribution to the academic debate on political conflict lines in the European Parliament. Our argument is that neither the left–right cleavage nor a territorial one (old versus new Member States) can fully explain conflict at stake on socio‐economic issues. Rather, what we can observe is cross‐cutting opposition between ‘regulators’ and ‘liberals’.