Bulletin n. 3/2010 | ||
January 2011 | ||
Crespy Amandine, Gajewska Katarzyna |
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New Parliament, New Cleavages after the Eastern Enlargement? The Conflict over the Services Directive as an Opposition between the Liberals and the Regulators | ||
in Journal of Common Market Studies , Volume 48, Issue 5, November 2010 , 2010 , 1185–1208 | ||
This article analyses the parliamentary debates and decision-making related to the highly contentious EU directive on services. It is intended as a contribution to the academic debate on political conflict lines in the European Parliament. Our argument is that neither the left–right cleavage nor a territorial one (old versus new Member States) can fully explain conflict at stake on socio-economic issues. Rather, what we can observe is cross-cutting opposition between ‘regulators’ and ‘liberals’. | ||