# Community method

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The '''community method'''<ref>{{cite journal|title=The European Union's Community Method|first=Youri|last=Devuyst|date=24 May 2018|journal=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.153}}</ref> (also known as the '''Union method'''){{better source needed|date=June 2023}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/charles-grant/europes-choice-monnet-vs-de-gaulle|title=Europe's choice: Monnet vs de Gaulle|website=openDemocracy|access-date=2018-08-21|archive-date=2018-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821160649/https://www.opendemocracy.net/charles-grant/europes-choice-monnet-vs-de-gaulle|url-status=dead}}</ref> refers to decision making processes in the [European Union](/source/European_Union) (EU) which emphasize the roles of the [supranational](/source/Supranationalism) decision making bodies such as the [European Commission](/source/European_Commission), the [European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament) and the [Council of the European Union](/source/Council_of_the_European_Union).<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Community Method|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546688.001.0001/acprof-9780199546688-chapter-4|website=Oxford Scholarship Online|accessdate=10 July 2014|isbn=9780191719998|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2008-09-25|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546688.003.0004|title=Constitutional Principles of EU External Relations|last1=De Baere|first1=Geert|pages=73–98}}</ref><ref name="Kaczorowska">{{cite book|last1=Kaczorowska|first1=Alina|title=European Union law|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, Oxon, London|isbn=9780415695978|page=10|edition=Third}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/glossary/community_intergovernmental_methods.html|title=Glossary of summaries - EUR-Lex|website=eur-lex.europa.eu|access-date=2018-12-19}}</ref> The community method can be contrasted with [intergovernmental](/source/Intergovernmentalism) decision making processes used in the former second and third pillars of the Union in which the European Commission and European Parliament played less important roles,<ref name="Kaczorowska" /> and to intergovernmental cooperation outside of the formal EU processes, such as the [Schengen Agreement](/source/Schengen_Agreement) (1985) before the [Treaty of Amsterdam](/source/Treaty_of_Amsterdam) (1997).

==See also==
* [Enhanced cooperation](/source/Enhanced_cooperation)
* [European Communities](/source/European_Communities)
* [Legislature of the European Union](/source/Legislature_of_the_European_Union)
* [Open method of coordination](/source/Open_method_of_coordination)
* [Three pillars of the European Union](/source/Three_pillars_of_the_European_Union)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/glossary/community_intergovernmental_methods_en.htm Community and intergovernmental methods] - Europa Glossary

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