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The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing

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  • Michaël Tatham

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Initially unfolding in parallel ways, the Europeanization and the regionalization of politics have increasingly intersected. Regional authorities have organized themselves to affect policy developments at the supranational level. They do so through the internal restructuring of their administrations, by carrying lobbying activities directly in Brussels, but also by institutionalizing and sometimes constitutionalizing their authority over their Member State's EU position. In other words, both their informal and formal influence over EU affairs has grown. The relevance of these trends is illustrated by recent events such as the Wallonia parliament holding up the EU–Canada trade deal. This case highlights how the nature of both subnational and supranational politics has changed over time. International trade deals used to be considered as ‘high politics’, remote from the immediate concerns of regional bodies and well beyond their formal reach. The Wallonia case illustrates this is no longer so.

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  • Michaël Tatham, 2018. "The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(3), pages 672-686, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:56:y:2018:i:3:p:672-686
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12714
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    1. Martin Gross, 2022. "Does Anyone Care? Cohesion Policy Issues in Sub‐national Politics," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(6), pages 1538-1555, November.
    2. Jana Paasch, 2022. "Revisiting Policy Preferences and Capacities in the EU: Multi‐level policy implementation in the subnational authorities," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(3), pages 783-800, May.
    3. Rachel Minto, 2020. "Sticky Networks in Times of Change: The Case of the European Women's Lobby and Brexit," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(6), pages 1587-1604, November.
    4. Jörg Broschek, 2023. "Multilevel Trade Policy in the Joint‐Decision Trap? The Case of CETA," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(3), pages 300-311.
    5. Michał Dulak, 2023. "Contribution of subnational authorities to multilateralism from the EU perspective—Implementation of the SDGs," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 14(S2), pages 13-21, March.

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