Building on the existing research on the European Commission's agenda-setting powers, this study examines the relationship between the policy priorities of the Commission and those of the other key policy actors in the European Union to determine the impact of other EU institutional actor preferences on the success of Commission priority initiatives. By using new and existing datasets to compare the European Commission's Work Programmes with European Council Summit Conclusions, the European Parliament's own initiative reports and Council Presidency Work Programmes, we are able to analyse the effect of policy priority congruence on the Commission's success and measure the autonomous policy influence of the Commission more accurately. Our results demonstrate that the Commission's priority initiatives are significantly more likely to result in legislative outcomes when they address policy topics already highlighted (whether fortuitously or as a result of Commission efforts) by the other key EU institutions. They also suggest that interpretations of the EU political system that ascribe the role of political executive to the Commission misconstrue its role.

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权力还是运气？欧盟委员会议程设定权力和自主政策影响的局限性

在对欧盟委员会议程设置权力的现有研究的基础上，本研究考察了委员会的政策优先事项与欧盟其他主要政策参与者的政策优先事项之间的关系，以确定其他欧盟机构参与者的偏好对欧盟的影响。委员会优先举措的成功。通过使用新的和现有的数据集将欧盟委员会的工作计划与欧洲理事会峰会结论、欧洲议会自己的倡议报告和理事会主席工作计划进行比较，我们能够分析政策优先级一致性对委员会成功的影响并衡量自治委员会的政策影响更准确。我们的结果表明，委员会' 当优先举措涉及其他主要欧盟机构已经强调的政策主题时（无论是偶然的还是由于委员会的努力），它们更有可能产生立法成果。他们还认为，将政治行政部门的角色归于委员会的对欧盟政治体系的解释误解了其角色。