By Stephen Stetter
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A Community institution’ (Smith 2003: 188). This delegation of powers to the Council Secretariat must not be mistaken for an abdication of political power by member states. In fact, the delegation of powers to the Council Secretariat has been used by member states in an attempt to avoid delegation to another supranational actor, namely the Commission. 4 Thus: the Council Secretariat has gained additional powers and responsibilities in recent rounds of treaty revision, in particular with respect to the establishment of the EU’s foreign, security and defence institutions – a development that, while reflecting concern among member states that Introduction 11 such powers should not be accrued by the Commission, also underlines the ability of the Council Secretariat to provide institutional solutions in such a context.
Wallace 2000). 1 Notwithstanding this significance of the Maastricht Treaty’s provisions, the origin of joint policies in both areas dates back to the early 1970s when member states established Europeanized frameworks for co-operation in foreign and home affairs, albeit on a purely intergovernmental basis (Lobkowicz 1994; M. E. Smith 1998; Wallace and Wallace 2000). 2 This path dependence was also replicated on a linguistic level. Thus most commentators still continue to refer to the ‘two intergovernmental pillars’ when analysing foreign and interior policies, despite the existence of a European ‘single institutional framework’ which formally covers policies across the three pillars (Denza 2002; Bieber and Monar 1995; Regelsberger et al.
Christiansen 2002: 46) The inclusion of the Council Secretariat into the analysis of this book does not, therefore, suggest that it is the most powerful actor within the complex institutional structure of the Council (see Hayes-Renshaw and Wallace 1997). Neither does it imply that the distinction between Secretariat and other Council actors is sharp. For example, the Council Secretariat – and also the European Political Co-operation (EPC) Secretariat from 1986 to 1993 – is characterized by a strong institutionalized interrelationship with and dependence on the rotating Presidencies.