MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Neofunctionalism, Europeanisation, Institutions Of The European Union
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Because different sectors and policy areas are interconnected, integration in one pressures. Spillover in areas where you cooperate the other to further integrate as well. If one sector experiences integration, it produces pressures for integration in adjoining and related sectors. Following economic integration -> national elites turn their focus towards supranational institutions. National elites turn attention to supranational levels of activity and decision-making favorable towards integration upgrading of common interests supranational institutions become more powerful more integration. A shift of loyalties from elites to the pan-european. Non-governmental actors become more influential in the integration process, while nation states and governmental actors become less influential. The increasing importance of integration generates pressures for political control and accountability at the supranational level. An integration junky through the integration of the economy you have to give more power to supranational institutions. Social dimension of the internal market (functional spillover) The common use of qmv in the council.
