The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the accountability
capacity of the two main EU watchdog institutions. The overarching
research question is: how powerful are these watchdog institutions in
holding the EU executive to account? The paper presents an expanded
analysis of the formal and organisational accountability powers of
these EU watchdogs and how these are exercised, based on an indepth
case study. We apply an assessment framework of accountability
powers developed previously. Both watchdogs have comparable
formal powers when it comes to accountability...