President of the European Union

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As President of the European Union (EU President), a highest office in the sense of a head of state or government is discussed in the debate about the political system of the European Union .

General use

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The "EU President" is commonly referred to as the President of the European Council (the college of heads of state and government of the EU member states, a political planning body) or the President of the European Commission (the highest executive ). While the President of the European Council is appointed by the European Council alone for two and a half years, the Commission President elected for five years requires the approval of the European Parliament in addition to being elected by the European Council .

The position of the President of the European Council could be described as that of a state president , although strictly speaking there is no real equivalent for his office in nation states. Most comparable in federal states is the chairman of an assembly of the heads of the governments of the member states (e.g. the provincial governors' conference in Austria), but who usually does not have any influence. The office of President of the European Commission is comparable to that of Prime Minister .

The President of the European Parliament, sometimes also referred to as the "EU President", or the Chairman of the Council of the European Union (the Council of Ministers, every six months), as typical parliamentary chairmen , are neither heads of state or government, but organs of the highest levels of the legislature (parliamentary spokesman) .

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Reform debate

In the European Convention , which drafted the EU Constitutional Treaty of 2004, a double function was discussed ( double hat debate) . The debate in the Constitutional Convention was on the big double hat , namely the merging of the offices of Commission President and Chairman of the European Council (changed every six months between states) to form a President of the European Union . The aim was to better interlink the European Commission and the European Council and to reduce dual responsibilities in political leadership and in the common foreign and security policy . However, the proposal of the great double hat could not prevail in the constitutional convention. Instead, the office of full-time President of the European Council was created. The office is not linked to that of the Commission President; However, the EU Treaty does not expressly exclude the possibility that the Commission President in personal union could also be President of the Council if the European Council so decides. The innovations contained in the Constitutional Treaty were later incorporated into the Lisbon Treaty and came into force in 2009.

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References and comments

  1. ^ Ines Härtel: Handbook of European Law-making. Springer, 2006, ISBN 3-540-30664-1 , Part 2 The competency order of the EU and the actors of the legislative process , especially p. 86 ff ( limited preview in the Google book search). And: Olaf Leiße (Ed.): The European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon . Verlag Springer DE, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16072-6 , Chapter 2 The Efficiency and Democracy Problems and the Lisbon Treaty , in particular p. 86 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ The "little double hat" is the - implemented - amalgamation of the two foreign minister-like offices of the EU to become the EU's high representative for foreign and security policy .