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The European Coal and Steel Community (now the EU) has grown in size to 28 member states that have joined together, with some others on the waiting list, to build a common economy, government, and culture. The European Union is the most successful experiment in international cooperation, but also the most complex system where powers and responsibilities are shared horizontally among interdependent institutions (European Commission, European Council of Ministers, European Parliament, European Council, and European Court of Justice) at the EU level and vertically between the EU and the member states (Hay and Menon 2007). The power or policy authority in this complex system is divided into three different categories such as exclusive EU competence, shared competence between the states and the EU, and the responsibility of member states. As...
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Ozen, I. (2016). Power and Politics in the European Union. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2452-1
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