L’intégration européenne affecte-t-elle les pratiques consensuelles des trois pays du Benelux ?

Telle est la question principale de recherche d'un ouvrage collectif en préparation pour 2012.

Une rencontre organisée les 14 et 15 octobre 2011 à Walferdange marque un nouveau jalon dans ce projet qui, né en 2008, a fait l’objet d’ateliers en 2010 au Politicologenetmaal à Leuven et en 2011 à l’Institut Montesquieu de La Haye et à la conférence EUSA à Boston.

Le projet réunit des chercheurs belges, néerlandais et luxembourgeois autour d’une caractéristique commune des systèmes politiques des pays du Benelux, souvent décrits comme des démocraties de consensus.

Comité éditorial : Patrick Dumont (Université du Luxembourg), Jan Beyers (Universiteit Antwerpen), Hans Vollaard (Universiteit Leident)

Informations complémentaires auprès de Patrick Dumont : patrick.dumont@uni.lu ou demos@uni.lu

Programme

Friday 14 October

13.30-14.00 Introduction: Europeanization of consensus politics in the Low Countries (Jan Beyers, Hans Vollaard, and Patrick Dumont)

14.00-14.30 Has the day-to-day coordination of EU policies become more or less consensual? (Peter Bursens, Robert Harmsen, Mendeltje van Keulen)

14.30-15.00 Does European integration make domestic bureaucratic politics more or less consensual? (Caelesta Braun-Poppelaars and Caspar van den Berg)

15.00-15.30 Does European integration enables or constrains consensual politics in intergovernmental relations between the central state and regions, communities, provinces, and municipalities? (Peter Bursens and Arjan Schakel)

16.00-16.30 Has inter-party competition and intra-party organization become more or less consensual due to European integration? (Benoit Rihoux and Ruud Koole)

16.30-17.00 Does European integration foster de-politicization through the courts? (Patricia Popelier and Wim Voermans)

Saturday 15 October

9.30-10.00 Has legislation and parliamentary control become more or less consensual due to European integration? (Arco Timmermans and Astrid Spreitzer)

10.00-10.30 What impact does European integration have on the relationship between the executive and the legislature? (Patrick Dumont and Arco Timmermans)

11.00-11.30 Have ratifications of EU Treaties become more or less consensual? (Joop van Holsteyn and Philippe Poirier)

11.30-12.00 Does European integration foster the inclusion of interest groups in decision-making? (Markus Haverland and Jan Beyers)

13.30-14.00 The political economy of the Low Countries: still the age of neo-corporatism? (Barbara Vis and Jaap Woldendorp)

14.00-14.30 Have European integration fostered or undermined consensus politics on the issues of migration and integration? (Maarten Vink, Saskia Bonjour and Ilke Adam)

14.30-15.30 Wrap up session - discussion