ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the shaping capacity for EU-policy-making of one particular long-standing EU member state: the Netherlands. The analysis is based upon a review of the ongoing debate amongst academics and practitioners on the European ambitions of the Dutch government and its potential to influence European policy-making processes. By applying the conceptual framework for governments’ shaping capacity, long-standing and less stable shaping ambitions of the Dutch government (§2 and 3) as well as its potential to realize these objectives (§4) will be discussed. 1
