Europeanization and the Weakening of Domestic Policy Concertation

This book contributes to our understanding of the domestic consequences of European integration by analysing its impact on policy-making patterns. It thereby focuses on market-making policies, which predominate European integration since the creation of the internal market in the 1990s. Selected case studies on policy processes aiming at liberalising the electricity market and reforming the competition law in Belgium and Switzerland show how domestic actors use these European policies in the subsequent domestic reforms and how this affects their preferences and influence. As a consequence, traditional policy concertation is weakened, both in Belgium and in non-member state Switzerland.