The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union

777 Pages·2015·3.891 MB·English

by  Claudia Hefftler, Christine Neuhold, Olivier Rozenberg, Julie Smith (eds.)

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK
OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Edited by
Claudia Hefftler,
Christine Neuhold,
Olivier Rozenberg
and Julie Smith
The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and
the European Union
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The Palgrave Handbook of
National Parliaments and the
European Union
Editedby
Claudia Hefftler
UniversityofCologne,Germany
Christine Neuhold
UniversityofMaastricht,Netherlands
Olivier Rozenberg
SciencesPo,Paris,France
Julie Smith
UniversityofCambridge,UK
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures ix
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
NotesonContributors xvii
ListofAbbreviations xxv
1 Introduction 1
OlivierRozenbergandClaudiaHefftler
Part I Cross-CuttingIssues
2 NationalParliamentsintheEuropeanUnion:Conceptual
ChoicesintheEuropeanUnion’sConstitutionalDebate 43
AfkeGroenandThomasChristiansen
3 FightingBack?And,IfSo,How?MeasuringParliamentary
StrengthandActivityinEUAffairs 60
KatrinAuel,OlivierRozenbergandAngelaTacea
4 InterparliamentaryCooperationintheEuropeanUnion:Patterns,
ProblemsandPotential 94
ClaudiaHefftlerandKatjanaGattermann
5 ParliamentaryAdministrationsintheScrutinyofEU
Decision-Making 116
Anna-LenaHögenauerandThomasChristiansen
6 LegislativeRegionsafterLisbon:ANewRoleforRegional
Assemblies? 133
GraciaVaraArribasandAnna-LenaHögenauer
Part II TheSixFoundingMembers,1957
7 Belgium:InstitutionalandAdministrativeAdaptationbut
LimitedPoliticalInterest 153
TomDelreuxandFrançoisRandour
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vi Contents
8 TheFrenchParliamentandtheEuropeanUnion:‘Shadow
Control’throughtheGovernmentMajority 170
AnjaThomasandAngelaTacea
9 WithaLittleHelpoftheConstitutionalCourt:TheBundestagon
ItsWaytoanActivePolicyShaper 191
OliverHöing
10 Italy:StillLookingforaNewEraintheMakingofEUPolicy 209
SabrinaCavatorto
11 Luxembourg’sChamberofDeputiesandEUAffairs 232
AstridSpreitzer
12 TheDutchParliamentandEUAffairs:DecentralizingScrutiny 252
Anna-LenaHögenauer
Part III FirstEnlargement,1973
13 TheDanishFolketingandEUAffairs:IstheDanishModelof
ParliamentaryScrutinyStillBestPractice? 275
MetteBuskjærChristensen
14 LongTrainRunning:TheSlowlyDeveloped(andSlowly
Developing)RoleofIreland’sOireachtasinEUAffairs 290
GavinBarrett
15 WestminsterandtheEuropeanUnion:Ever-Increasing
Scepticism? 312
AriellaHuffandJulieSmith
Part IV MediterraneanEnlargements,1981and1986
16 TheGreekParliamentandtheEuropeanUnionaftertheLisbon
Treaty:AMissedOpportunitytoEmpowerParliament 335
DimitriA.Sotiropoulos
17 TheSpanishNationalParliamentandtheEuropeanUnion:Slow
AdaptationtoNewResponsibilitiesinTimesofCrisis 348
MarioKöllingandIgnacioMolina
18 ThePortugueseParliamentandEUAffairs:FromInerttoAgile
DemocraticControl 366
DavorJanˇcic´
Contents vii
Part V PostCold-WarEnlargement,1995
19 TheAustrianParliamentandEUAffairs:GraduallyLivingUpto
ItsLegalPotential 389
EricMiklin
20 TheFinnishEduskuntaandtheEuropeanUnion:TheStrengths
andWeaknessesofaMandatingSystem 406
TapioRaunio
21 TheSwedishParliamentandEUAffairs:FromReluctantPlayerto
EuropeanizedActor 425
HansHegeland
Part VI EasternandMediterraneanEnlargements,2004,
2007and2013
22 TheBulgarianNationalAssemblyandEUAffairs:HesitantSteps
intheEuropeanArena 445
DobrinKanev
23 TheCroatianParliamentintheEuropeanUnion:Ready,Steady,
Go! 462
HrvojeButkovic´
24 TheCypriotParliamentandEUAffairs 479
AchillesEmilianides,OdysseasChristouandChristinaIoannou
25 TheCzechParliamentandEuropeanIntegration 494
MartinHrabálekandAlexanderStrelkov
26 TheEstonianParliamentandEUAffairs:AWatchdogThatDoes
NotBark? 513
PiretEhin
27 TheHungarianParliamentandEUAffairs:AModestActor
DominatedbytheExecutive 531
GabriellaIlonszki
28 TheLatvianParliamentandEUAffairs:APassivePlayerwith
StrongFormalPowers 548
Ja¯nisIkstens
29 ParliamentaryScrutinyofEUAffairsinLithuania:TheDogThat
RarelyBarks 563
Ramu¯nasVilpišauskas
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30 TheMalteseParliamentandEUAffairs:ASlowAwakeningtoIts
Responsibilities 578
RoderickPace
31 ThePolishParliamentandEUAffairs 594
JanBarczandAnnaPudło
32 TheSlowAdaptationofaNewMemberState:TheRomanian
ParliamentandEuropeanIntegration 613
AngelaTacea
33 TheSlovakParliamentandEUAffairs:InNeedofaWake-UpCall 632
AndreaFigulová
34 SlovenianParliamentandEUAffairs:StrongFormalPowers
AwaitingInterestandCapacitytoBeUsed 649
SabinaKajnˇcLange
35 Conclusion:From‘Latecomers’to‘PolicyShapers’?–TheRoleof
NationalParliamentsinthe‘Post-Lisbon’Union 668
ChristineNeuholdandJulieSmith
Bibliography 687
AuthorIndex 727
SubjectIndex 733
Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1 NationalparliamentsintheEU:Numberofassembliesand
typesofcompetences 3
1.2 Declaration12,attachedtotheTreatyonEuropeanUnion,
MaastrichtTreaty,1992 10
1.3 ExtractfromtheLaekenDeclarationof15December2001 12
1.4 TheprovisionsoftheLisbonTreatyrelatedtonationalparliaments 13
1.5 ModelsofparliamentaryscrutinyofEUaffairs 30
3.1 Institutionalstrengthscores:Dimensions,indicatorsand
measurement 70
3.2 Indicatorsandmeasurementoftheactivityscore 71
3.3 DescriptivedataonparliamentaryEUactivities:Absolute
numbers,2010–2012 76
3.4 DescriptivedataonparliamentaryEUactivities:Yearlyaverages
perchamberacrossthreeyears,2010–2012 77
3.5 Rankingofthe40chambersaccordingtoinstitutionalstrength
scoreandactivityscore 79
3.6 ModesofparliamentaryactivityinEUaffairs 82
4.1 Overviewofirregularformalinterparliamentarycooperation
activities 98
5.1 Parliamentaryoversightoverexecutivebureaucracies 122
7.1 ModelsofparliamentaryscrutinyofEUaffairs:TheBelgian
Parliament 167
8.1 OriginsofEuropeanresolutionsintheAssembléenationale,
2002–2012 175
8.2 OverviewofreasonedopinionsandopinionsinthePolitical
Dialogue,2006–2013 182
8.3 ModelsofparliamentaryscrutinyofEUaffairs:TheFrench
Parliament 188
9.1 MajorlegalchangesarisingfromtheEUZBBG,2013 194
9.2 Numberofopinionsandreasonedopinionssubmittedtothe
EuropeanCommissionbytheGermanBundestagand
Bundesratbetween2006and2012 201
9.3 ModelsofparliamentaryscrutinyofEUaffairs:TheGerman
Parliament 206
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