In Richtung engerer Beziehungen: Voraussetzungen für eine wirksamere Justiz- und Innenpolitik

Die Voraussetzungen für gute politische Prozesse im
Bereich Justiz und Inneres bestehen darin, dass die
Entscheidungsträger über ein klares Mandat
verfügen und dass die Einrichtungen, die für die
Umsetzung verantwortlich sind, gut verwaltet werden. Wer tut
was und wer ist wofür verantwortlich sollte der
Öffentlichkeit und den Interessengruppen, die von
politischen Maßnahmen betroffen sind, bewusst sein,
so 
Joanna Apap

in ihrem Artikel, der in der 
CEPS Working Document

-Serie veröffentlicht wurde. 

At the most general level, the provision of
a clear mandate is a constitutional question.
The present pillar structure of the EU is
unsatisfactory and unclear. Should the
Constitutional Treaty that was politically
adopted at the intergovernmental conference
(IGC) on 18 June 2004 enter into force as
foreseen in 2009, the pillar structure would
cease to exist, the European Parliament would
have a greater role in the co-decision
procedure (Article III-302) and the European
Court of Justice would be conferred the power
to review and interpret all these policies. In
the proposals for the next IGC, the pillar
structure should be replaced by a simple
division of powers – those reserved for
the EU, those remaining exclusively with the
member states and those shared by the EU and
the member states in an enlarged European
Union. Whether the system is well-managed
depends on the presence of high levels of
trust, adequate flexibility, good coordination
and efficiency in terms of cost and rapidity of
response to requests for information and
cooperation. Despite the complexity of the
intellectual debates devoted to these concepts,
communicating some ideas from these debates in
language that is accessible to policy-makers is
overdue. 

Read the article in full on the CEPS website

.

Joanna Apap

is head of unit and research fellow on Justice
and Home Affairs at the Centre for European
Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.