Guri Rosén is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies. Her main areas of academic interest include the EU's external trade policy, the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and the European Parliament. Abstract This article examines the relationship between the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the European Parliament (EP.) The author ask why would member states, in...

In the last few years the European Parliament has witnessed a significant increase in translation demand. Although Translation Memory (TM) tools, terminology databases and bilingual concordancers have provided significant leverage in terms of quality and productivity the European Parliament is in need for advanced language technology to keep facing successfully the challenge of multilingualism....

The paper analyzes the appointment of the European Commission as a strategic game between members of the European Parliament and the Council. The focal equilibrium results in Commissioners that duplicate policy preferences of national Council representatives. Different internal decision rules still prevent the Commission from being a Council clone in aggregate. Rather, it is predicted that Comm...

The objective of this paper is to chart the boundaries of the developing phenomenon of the use of information and communication technologies to support politics by large political organizations such as the European Parliament through the analysis of the online strategy of the European Parliament in its campaign for widening participation in the 2009 European Parliament elections. For the first ...