02356nam a2200313 i 4500 17615321 20251006121829.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 230525s2025||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d 9781009445207 (UkCbUP)CR9781009445238 UkCbUP eng rda UkCbUP eng e------ KJE5349 .R84 2025 Rugge, Giacomo author 26010 Trilogues : the democratic secret of European legislation / Giacomo Rugge. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. xviii, 229 pages ; 24 cm. Cambridge studies in European law and policy Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025). A historical reconstruction -- Setting the stage : the European institutional triangle -- Unpacking the law and practice of trilogues -- Trilogues : informality meets positive law -- Inter-chamber coordination in a comparative perspective -- Trilogues and European democracy. The events of the last ten years have shaken the "permissive consensus" that kept the European integration process going for many years. 'Output democracy', as based on decisions presumably meeting the needs of the citizens, is no longer enough to obtain public support. Never before has a process-oriented approach to European democracy been more urgent. This book aims to address this urgency, by providing an account of the European legislative process that is less conventional and does justice to the democratic potential inherent in trilogues. In particular, this book provides: a comprehensive reconstruction of the workings of trilogues, relying on internal documents collected through a series of access to documents requests; gives meaning to the legal notion of informality, understood as one of the most defining, although elusive, features of trilogues; squares the practice of trilogues with the European democratic order of the Treaties, showing that such a practice is compatible with a model of 'negotiation democracy'. Access is available to the Yale community. Legislation European Union countries 26011 Democracy European Union countries 26012 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-10-06 0 KJE5349 RUG B07654 2025-10-06 1 2025-10-06 1 5007 5007