What is it about?
Literature on the rotating EU presidency tends to become repetitive when discussing the roles and performance of presidencies. The literature also tends to agree that the presidency after the Lisbon Treaty has lost its shine. Developments in 2016 underlined that politics is squarely back at the heart of European integration. This has consequences for the contributions of the rotating presidency to problem-solving in the EU – provided member states know how to handle their presidency. The Dutch presidency shows that this office need not have lost its shine.
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Why is it important?
The rotating presidency remains - potentially - an important component of the EU's institutional design particularly when it comes to solving political difficulties. European integration has become even more political and therefore the rotating presidency remains relevant (provided member states can perform the problem-solving tasks effectively).
Perspectives
The dismissive way in which the EU’s rotating presidency is handled in EU literature may say more about the quality of the member states running the presidency than about the need for the EU to have problem-solving capacities at EU level.
adriaan schout
Netherlands institute of international relations clingendael
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This page is a summary of: The Dutch EU Presidency: The Continuing Relevance of the Rotating Presidency in a Political Union, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12576.
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