Europeanisation of National Parliaments Research Papers

In this book I perform an analysis on the British, French, German, Italian and Spanish parliaments in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty. The first part is devoted to their participation in EU affairs until 2009 in order to highlight to what... more

This article analyses the blossoming of the initiatives for inter-parliamentary cooperation currently observable in the European Union from a democratic legitimacy perspective. It shows that there exists numerous forms and settings for... more

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This essay outlines the role that the national parliaments of federal and regional states can play in the context of the multilevel governance of the EU. The methods of coordination between national parliaments and sub-state territorial... more

The literature on national parliaments and the EU has built up its knowledge on the strength and activities of domestic parliaments in the European Union. While these studies were of outmost importance to understand how and why... more

The Treaty of Lisbon and in particular the early warning mechanism (hereinafter EWM) have drawn the attention of many scholars as concerns the ability of national parliaments to influence EU law-making and the substance of EU legislation,... more

The Treaty of Lisbon and in particular the early warning mechanism (hereinafter EWM) have drawn the attention of many scholars as concerns the ability of national parliaments to influence EU law-making and the substance of EU legislation, the nature of this new power, and finally the implications of the introduction of this new mechanism for the relationship among
parliaments. However, the effects of the Treaty of Lisbon’s provisions on the transparent operations of national parliaments have been largely disregarded. Indeed, besides aiming to put the EU legislative competence under control, one of the original intents of the procedure, firstly conceived during the Convention on the future of Europe, was to bring the EU legislative process closer to national polities. Such an objective became even more important after the result of the Dutch and the French referenda on the Constitutional Treaty. Given the fact that the EU institutions are traditionally perceived by EU citizens as detached from their local and particular interests, the involvement of national parliaments at the very early stage of the European legislative process would have helped to make these procedures more understandable to them.
The paper aims to analyse the effects of the new Treaty of Lisbon’s provisions – and especially
the EWM - on national parliaments and, more specifically, on how they promote the idea of Open
government. No obligations for national parliaments to improve the transparency of their activities directly stem from the EU Treaties provisions on the EWM, in part because this requirement would probably have encroached upon the Member States’ constitutional autonomy. Nonetheless Protocol no. 1 and Protocol no. 2 annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon support such a development when they ask for the direct transmission of all EU draft legislative acts and documents, once translated, to national parliaments, and leave open to each national parliament the opportunity to consult regional parliaments with legislative powers in the EWM.
Indeed, it appears that the provisions contained in the new Treaty have brought some changes in how national parliaments and governments operate as regards the disclosure of information dealing with the EU policy-making for civil society participation. The paper is based on a comparative legal analysis of the Italian and Spanish Parliaments and their developments as more ‘open parliaments’ on EU matters in the light of the EU Treaties’ innovations.

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- by Diane Fromage and +1
  Cristina Fasone
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  European integration, European Law, Subsidiarity, European Union

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance created in 2013. It first studies the conditions of its emergence and shows how some of the arrangements in... more

The parliaments in the EU are facing a choice. They may exploit the existing possibilities, continue business as usual (possibly with declining participation in inter-parliamentary cooperation, so no change), or bypass existing... more

At the heart of the growing politicization of the EU lies a concern with how European integration potentially undermines forms of communal self-government linked to established political identities. This concern originates not from the... more

This contribution examines the relationship between the European Parliament and National parliaments. It contends that the EP's attitude toward NPs varies depending on its own institutional position.

One of the main promises of the Treaty of Lisbon was to increase the democratic legitimacy of the European Union through strengthening the role of national parliaments in EU policy-making under the so-called 'Early Warning System' (EWS)... more

The eurozone crisis is commonly associated with a politicization of public debate along national lines. With money being redistributed between member states, national parliamentarians (MPs) seem likely to pit national interests against... more

The aim of this article is to analyse the transformative power of the EU with regard to the Polish system of governance. The Europeanisation of Polish law, politics, economy, culture and society has been in progress since the 1990s. One... more

The aim of this article is to analyse the transformative power of the EU with regard to the Polish system of governance. The Europeanisation of Polish law, politics, economy, culture and society has been in progress since the 1990s. One can differentiate between two stages of Europeanisa-tion: before and after Poland's EU accession, each characterised by different conditions. In the course of time, this process, on the whole, has been undergoing numerous changes but it has never reduced in importance. The spectacular transformation of the political system prior to EU accession was followed by further changes, less visible but equally profound and remarkable after EU accession. Of course, most modifications related to the Europeanisation of law and the system of governance which are similar, if not the same, in all EU member states as well as the states associated with the EU. This is so because one of the fundamental principles of the EU is uniformity in the application of its law. However, this uniformity can be ensured in various ways. This is expressed and guaranteed by the principle of procedural autonomy of the member states. Under this principle, the member states may adopt different legal procedures and systems, inter alia with regard to their public administration and territorial structure, as long as they ensure that EU law is applied effectively. The author advances the thesis that the more the structure of the political and legal system of a member state differs from that of the EU, the more visible is its transfor-mative power. This explains why the transformative power of the EU varies from one member state to another. The European transformation of the legislative, executive and judicial power in Poland cannot be analysed solely in terms of their quantity as this would lead to overly simplified conclusions. Each member state should be addressed individually with regard to the specific circumstances of its EU membership. The process of unification does not keep pace with the advancing integration of various, frequently divergent, phenomena 21

The European integration process has long been characterised by the predominance of national executive powers. National parliaments were recognised as European actors after several decades only, in the Maastricht Treaty first and to an... more

The contributions collected in this Max Weber Working Papers Special Issue were first delivered at a conference held at the European University Institute and jointly organised by the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies and the... more

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- by Zoe Lefkofridi
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  European Studies, Public Opinion, European integration, European Law

Streszczenie Głównym zarzutem podnoszonym wobec unijnego mechanizmu wczesnego ostrzegania jest jego niska użyteczność. Trzykrotne uruchomienie procedury żółtej kartki i brak uruchomienia procedury pomarańczowej kartki obiektywnie... more

Streszczenie Głównym zarzutem podnoszonym wobec unijnego mechanizmu wczesnego ostrzegania jest jego niska użyteczność. Trzykrotne uruchomienie procedury żółtej kartki i brak uruchomienia procedury pomarańczowej kartki obiektywnie wskazują, że potencjał tego instrumentu politycznego nie jest w pełni wykorzystywany. Jednak po prawie siedmiu latach obowiązywania traktatu z Lizbony zebrać możemy wystarczająco danych, aby podjąć próbę oceny nie tyle samego mechanizmu wczesnego ostrzegania, co wpływu jaki wywarł on na zaangażowanie parlamentów narodowych w sprawy europejskie. Celem artykułu jest zbadanie jak na tle pozostałych parlamentów narodowych Sejm i Senat wykorzystują mechanizm wczesnego ostrzegania w ramach wykonywanej przez siebie kon-troli przestrzegania zasady pomocniczości. W pracy zaproponowany zostanie katalog wskaźników, według których można oceniać aktywność, a w dalszej perspektywie także i skuteczność parlamen-tów w przedmiotowej sprawie. Przedstawione zostaną także wyniki badania empirycznego, które w oparciu o wybrane wskaźniki mierzy zakres ilościowy i jakościowy wykorzystania mechanizmu wczesnego ostrzegania przez Sejm i Senat w latach 2010-2016. Słowa kluczowe: subsydiarność, ewaluacja, mechanizm wczesnego ostrzegania UE, Sejm i Senat RP Political analysis of using the EU early warning mechanism by the Sejm and the Senate in the years Abstract Main argument raised against EU early warning mechanism is its low utility. Yellow card procedure has been launched three times so far, whereas orange card procedure not even once. This indicates that the potential of political instrument which is early-warning mechanism is not fully explored. Nonetheless after seven years since the Lisbon Treaty came into force we can collect enough data in order to asses not only the mechanism itself but also the influence of this instrument on the national parliament scrutiny and engagement in the EU affairs. The aim of this article is: to research how the Sejm and Senate use the early warning mechanism, describe what is its impact on general competences of the Polish parliament regarding subsidiarity control and to confront

The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union offers a comprehensive picture of the European activities of national parliaments in all the 28 member states of the EU. In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty, it... more

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- by François Randour and +1
  Tom Delreux
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  Belgium, EU National Parliaments, Europeanisation of National Parliaments, National Parliaments In the EU

The general aim of this paper is to look at the effectiveness of scrutiny of the European Commission’s legislative proposals by national parliaments. The main idea is not to discuss theoretical background, but to analyze the process from... more

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