The Committee of the Regions in the postLisbon EU: Smart, sustainable and inclusive multi-level governance?
The Committee of the Regions in the postLisbon EU: Smart, sustainable and inclusive multi-level governance?

Author(s): Justus Schönlau
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics
Published by: Kossuth Kiadó Zt.
Summary/Abstract: The Committee of the Regions (CoR), which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2014, is a comparatively young institution in the EU set-up. Since having been created by the Maastricht Treaty in the image of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) as an advisory body, the CoR has sought to develop its role as the most visible institutional expression of the sub-national level of governance in the emerging ‘multi-level governance’ system in the EU, in order to establish itself as a player in the legislative process and to strengthen its role vis-à-vis the other institutions. It has continuously pushed for an increase in the scope of its advisory function and has also taken important steps to broaden the range of its activities. In this sense, the CoR has seen considerable change to its institutional structure and role over the period of its existence.

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