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New Parliament, Old Cleavages? The Conflict over the Services Directive as an Opposition between the Liberals and the Regulators

par Crespy, Amandine ;Gajewska, Kasia
Référence Journal of common market studies, 48, 5, page (1185-1208)
Publication Publié, 2010-11

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This article analyses the parliamentary debates and decision-making related to the highly contentious EU directive on services. It is intended as a contribution to the academic debate on political conflict lines in the European Parliament. Our argument is that neither the left–right cleavage nor a territorial one (old versus new MemberStates) can fully explain conflict at stake on socio-economic issues. Rather, what we can observe is cross-cutting opposition between ‘regulators’ and ‘liberals’.