New parliament, new cleavages after the Eastern enlargement? The conflict over the service Directive as an opposition between the liberals and the regulators
Crespy, Amandine ; Gajewska, Katarzyna
Journal of Common Market Studies
2010
48
5
November
1185-1208
decision making ; EU Directive ; EU enlargement ; European Union ; service sector
Service sector
English
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"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'."
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