Shifting Power between European Institutions: The EU-US open skies agreement

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This briefing paper examines the conduct and interplay between the European institutions on an important international agreement, the Open Skies Agreement (OSA) with the US of 2007/2010. The paper examines the OSA as its main case study to generate transferable lessons for future international bargains and with particular reference to European Parliamentarians about how to successfully exercise their oversight role. To this end it examines the position of the European Commission and how – in this case- the Commission obtained the sole negotiation power with the external partner; an important shift of negotiating rights from member states to a supranational institution. The paper goes onto describe the process and outcome of this set of negotiations and why the OSA came to be renegotiated. It then analyzes the implications of the agreement as regards the shift of competences between member states and the Council on the one hand and the Commission on the other hand, as well as the implic

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