The Network on Political-Economic Dimensions of Enlargement and New Membership of the European Union was approved by ESF Executive Council in November 1995 for a three year period. In autumn 1998 it received an extension and it was completed in 1999.
The Chairman was Dr. Bernard Steunenberg from The Netherlands.

The dossier contains NEMEU working papers:
No. 96-1: "A theory of the conditional influence of the European Parliament in the cooperation procedure" by Peter Moss;
No. 96-2: "Constitutional power in the EU" by Jan-Erik Lane and Reinert Maeland;
No. 96-3: "Some elements of a European Federal Union: a public choice approach" by Friedrich Schneider;
No. 96-4: "Commission discretion, Parliamentary involvement and administrative policymaking in the European Union" by Bernard Steunenberg;
No. 96-5: "Districts and the coordination of monetary policies in the European systems of central banks" by Jordi Bacaria and Andreas P. Kyriacou;
No. 96-6: "Beyond comitology: a comparative analysis of implementation procedures with parliamentary involvement" by Bernard Steunenberg, Christian Koboldt and Dieter Schmidtchen;
No. 96-7: "Public debt and budgetary procedures: top down or bottom top? Some evidence from Swiss municipalities" by Lars P. Feld and Gebhard Kirchgässner:
No. 97-1: "Measurements of voting power: individual and systemic properties. With applications to EU enlargements" by Sven Berg and Jan-Erik Lane;
No. 97-2: "Redesigning institutions: the codecision procedure in the European Union" by Bernard Steunenberg;
No. 97-3: "The institutional politics of enlargement. Diverging goals for reforming EU legislation" by Thomas König and Thomas Bräuninger;
No. 97-4: "Towards an economic theory of optimum legal areas" by Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz and Dieter Schmidtchen;
No. 99-1: "The search for convergence of national policies in the European Union: an impossible quest?" By Antoaneta Dimitrova and Bernard Steunenberg;
No. 99-2: "Interests, legitimacy and constitutiona0l choic3e: the extension of the codecision procedure in Amsterdam" by Bernard Steunenberg and Antoaneta Dimitrova.

The dossier also contains: "Widening the European Union: the politics of institutional change and reform", papers for the 4th NEMEU research conference, 7-10 Jan 1999, Prague.

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