| 1 | Introduction: Two Images of EU Decision-Making |
| 2 | Coreper in the EU System |
| 2.1 | A Novel Representational Form |
| 2.2 | Wearing a Janus-Face |
| 3 | Reconceptualizing the Community-Method |
| 3.1 | Missing Ingredients in the Intergovernmentalist Image |
| 3.2 | Instructions and the Intergovernmentalist Image |
| 4 | Coreper and the Community-Method: Two Cases |
| 4.1 | The 1994 Directive on the Right to Vote and Run for Municipal Elections |
| 4.2 | The 1996 Helms-Burton Countermeasures |
| 5 | Conclusion: Coreper as a Nucleus of Community |
| References |