Coreper

This dataset provides the date, duration, and policy coding of more than 70,000 meetings of Council working parties, committees and ministerial formations in the Council of the European Union, covering all areas of its policy activities between 1995 and 2014. It also documents the birth, merger, split, succession, or death of working parties and committees, providing novel insights about changes in the organisational structure of the Council over time.

Beginning with my PhD dissertation, several of my studies examine the role played by diplomats and other national officials in shaping the process and outcome of decision-making in the Council of the European Union. Collectively, they help to improve our understanding of the internal decision-making process of the Council, which has long been seen as a ‘black box’.

Research on the intra-institutional consequences of differences in the EU’s interinstitutional rule configurations is rare. This study …

This study presents reliable cross-sectoral data on the relative involvement of working parties, senior committees and ministers in …

Many legislative decisions of the Council of the European Union are de facto made in preparatory bodies by national officials and …

Committees of national officials play a major role in the decision-making of the European Union’s main legislative body, the …

Little systematic empirical research exists about legislative decision-making in the Council of the European Union. This study …