Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers

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1 Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers And All Must Have Prizes Sandrino Smeets

2 Contents List of Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: A Typical Day at the Justus Lipsius ix xi xiii xv Chapter One Theorising Council Negotiations 1 Chapter Two A Caucus-Race Model of Negotiations 21 Chapter Three Research Design 41 Chapter Four The Double Bluff: Perspectives and Positions 61 Chapter Five Procedural Anchors and Verbal Commitments (June 2000 June 2003) 83 Chapter Six Croatia Sets the Stage or Raises the Bar (June 2003 December 2005) 101 Chapter Seven Searching for Standard Operating Procedures (January 2006 June 2008) 129 Chapter Eight Splendid Isolation? (June 2008 October 2010) 157 Chapter Nine Conclusion 183 Appendices 203 Bibliography 217 Index 233

3 List of Abbreviations Avis BiH CEEC CFSP Civcom Coela Coreper Coreu Coweb DG DPA DUI EC EEAS ESDP EU EUSR FRY FYROM GAERC GNR HR IA ICJ ICTY LCD NATO NGO OFA OHR OSCE Permrep Opinion of the European Commission on a membership application Bosnia and Herzegovina Central and Eastern European Countries Common Foreign and Security Policy Committee for the Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management Council Working party on enlargement Comité des représentants permanents (Committee of Permanent Representatives) Correspondance européenne Council Working party for the Western Balkans Directorate General Democratic Party of the Albanians (Macedonia) Democratic Union for Integration (Macedonia) European Council European External Action Service European Security and Defence Policy European Union European Union Special Representative Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia General Affairs and External Relations Council Good Neighbourly Relations High Representative (Bosnia) Interim Agreement (on trade and trade-related matters) International Court of Justice International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Lowest common denominator North Atlantic Treaty Organization Non-governmental organisation Ohrid Framework Agreement (Macedonia) Office of the High Representative (Bosnia) Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Permanent Representation (of the member states in Brussels)

4 x Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers PIC PSC QMV RS SAA SAP SG/HR SOP TEU UDI UNMIK UNSC Peace Implementation Council (Bosnia) Political and Security Committee Qualified Majority Voting Republika Srpska Stabilisation and Association Agreement Stabilisation and Association Process Secretary General/High Representatives Standard operating procedure Treaty on the European Union Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Kosovo) United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo United Nations Security Council

5 List of Figures and Tables Figures Figure 2.1: A schematic view of a debate 24 Figure 2.2: Five levels of play in the Balkan pre-accession game 29 Figure 2.3: The interplay between Council levels 36 Figure 4.1: Positionality in the Balkan pre-accession game 64 Figure 9.1: Overview of the Caucus-Race model 183 Tables Table 3.1: The games and rounds of the Balkan pre-accession game ( ) 43 Table 3.2: Consecutive steps in the Balkan pre-accession trajectory 46 Table 3.3: Operationalisation of the Caucus-Race model 58 Table 5.1: Key decisions with regard to Balkan pre-accession (2000 3) 84 Table 5.2: Key moments in the debate on the OFA conditionality (Macedonia) 92 Table 5.3: Key moments in the debate about Solania (Serbia and Montenegro) 93 Table 6.1: Key decisions with regard to Balkan pre-accession (2003 5) 102 Table 6.2: Key moments in the debate about Gotovina (Croatia) 104 Table 6.3: Key moments in the debate on opening SAA negotiations (Serbia) 115 Table 6.4: Key moments in the debate on opening SAA negotiations (Bosnia) 119 Table 6.5: Key moments in the debate about awarding candidacy (Macedonia) 122 Table 7.1: Key decisions with regard to Balkan pre-accession (2006 8) 130 Table 7.2: Key moments in the debate on suspending SAA negotiations (Serbia) 138

6 xii Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers Table 7.3: Key moments in the debate on resuming SAA negotiations (Serbia) 141 Table 7.4: Key moments in the debate about signing an SAA (Serbia) 144 Table 7.5: Key moments in the debate about the European perspective (Kosovo) 149 Table 8.1: Key decisions with regard to Balkan pre-accession ( ) 158 Table 8.2: Key moments in the debate about OHR conditionality (Bosnia) 161 Table 8.3: Key moments in the debate on good neighbourly relations (Macedonia) 169 Table 8.4: Key moments in the debate about requesting a Commission avis (Serbia) 176 Appendix Table A1: Chronology of the political steps in the Balkan pre-accession game 209 Appendix Table A2: Chronology of the political steps in the Balkan pre-accession game (by Presidency) 212 Appendix Table A3: Games and rounds in the Balkan pre-accession game 215