CVCE.eu (University of Luxembourg) (accessed 11 March 2024)

The University of Luxembourg’s CVCE.eu website (former Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe) gives you access to documents and publications on the European integration process. It is a major information source.

See in particular the chapters on

"Composition"

"Organisation and operation"

and its related resources.

Fattmann, Rainer, Journal of European integration history, 16 (2), 2020, pages 45-58.

The Free and Christian trade unions of the six founding members of the EEC had been one of the motors of European Integration from its beginnings. The Hallstein Commission entertained close relations to the European Federations of free and Christian trade unions, which had been created immediately after the founding of the EEC. In the field of agriculture Sicco Mansholt installed systematically contacts to the European landworkers federations.

Müller, Henriette, Journal of European Integration, 29 (2), 2017, pages 129-142.

Since the presidents of the European Commission are not vested with direct decision-making power at the EU level, influencing and shaping Europe's agenda through agenda-setting is one of the president's primary political opportunities for exhibiting political leadership.

Badinger, Harald ; Nitsch, Volker. In: Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration, 2016, pages 58-72.

Economic thought and policy-making at the European Commission are very much a function of two elements: first, the treaties, as they determined the mandate of the Commission and, second, the economic ideas in the different countries of the Community, as economic thought at the Commission was to a large extent a synthesis and compromise of the main schools of thought in the Community.

Tommel, Ingeborg, Journal of common market studies, 51 (4), 2013, pages 789-805.

This article analyzes the leadership of three Commission Presidents: Jacques Delors, Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi.

Philip Bajon. Journal of European Integration History, 15 (2) 2009, pages 105-124.

Giuglea, M., Europolity: Continuity and change in European governance, 3 (1), 2009, pages 43-52

This paper aims to present the evolution of the European Commission from 1965, of the Merger Treaty in Brussels until 2000 with the signing of the Treaty of Nice. I begin by presenting the Commission’s role within the institutional system of the European Union, define the notion of ‘competence’ and explain how the institution has evolved in parallel with the need for progress of the European Union. Present theory in the scientific literature on this subject was, finally, exposed to potential changes made by the Treaty of Lisbon as regards the powers of the Commission.

Didier Georgakakis and Marine de Lassale, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI working paper, 38, 2008.

Founded on a prosopographical analysis of the European Commission's top civil servants, this paper gathers data in order to contribute to the analysis of the European legal capital in two ways. First, we show that while jurists (i.e. agents for whom law was the main element of their training) integrated the European Commission administration very early on, and acquired dominant positions, they were strong only insofar as their legal training was the basis of a broader undertaking of construction and acquisition of a more general bureaucratic capital. Secondly, we demonstrate that this ability to hold dominant positions within the machine tends to be increasingly contested with the rise of other agents, especially economists, whose properties tend to become indispensable for a high level career within the European Commission.