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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 This page intentionally left blank 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 Palgrave macmillan Selectionandeditorialmatter©ClaudiaHefftler,ChristineNeuhold,Olivier RozenbergandJulieSmith2015 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2015 Foreword©WolfgangWessels2015 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2015978-1-137-28912-4 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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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 v 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 viii Contents 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 ix
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