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Contemporary analysts differ over which EU actors are the main drivers of European integration and how they go about pursuing it. “New intergovernmentalists,” for example, focus on political leaders’ deliberations in the European Council. They clash with “new supranationalists,” who zero in on how technical actors design and enforce policies in the European Commission and other bodies. The latter two groups, in turn, ignore the “new parliamentarists,” who preoccupy themselves with the European Parliament. This paper argues that only by considering the actions and interactions of all three actors together can we fully understand the “new” EU’s governance and its problems.