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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 7th Annual International Postgraduate Conference

Inclusion Exclusion

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Thursday 16 February 4:30 – 6:00: Panel C1: EU Integration

Mario Koelling (University of Zaragoza): ‘Explaining negotiations on financial perspectives 2007-2013: actors and institutions – how did member states do?’

From a political science perspective, my paper, as a summary of the stand of my PhD project, will focus on the impact of the institutional design on the negotiation of the financial framework 2007- 2013. Using a neo-institutional approach, I focus on the analysis of actor's behaviour during the negotiation process, with special emphasis on the behaviour of new member states as new actors in this process, but also on behaviour of the "enlarged communitarian organs". I understand the terms inclusion or exclusion as different types of actor's participation in the negotiation process.

The ongoing negotiation of the new financial framework is, after the enlargement and negotiations of the Constitution, an important subject on the Union's agenda that will radically affect the future of European integration, spanning the period (2007 and 2013) when recent enlargement will be completed, fully noticed, in economic and political terms, and new power relations will influence de agenda of the Union. In this sense the negotiation on the financing of the EU is furthermore significant because it is the first time that a financial package will be agreed in negotiation by an EU of25 member states.

In my paper I would like to provide answers to following questions in order to detect if member states really "arrived" and participate as equal actors in the Union: Do new member state's behaviour in the bargaining process differ, do they represent a different identity and impulse activities which shape actor's behaviour in current financial negotiation and what effect had enlargement on the institutional negotiation framework? I will provide not only an overview over norms, rules and structures which explain the negotiation development, but also an analysis about strategies of new member states in the given institutional framework. My hypothesis is: Besides the new cleavage in the negotiation, new net beneficiaries vs. old beneficiaries, and despite the new power relations, enlargement did not provoke a fundamental change of negotiation procedures nor actor's behaviour, in this sense new member states are "included" as emancipated actors in the political reality of the EU.