The European Parliament in Times of Eu Crisis: Dynamics and Transformations

ISBN-13: 9783319973906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 460 str.

Olivier Costa

Opis

This book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014).

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments 

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The need for further research on the European Parliament

Olivier Costa

Part I The EP and the EU Political System

1 Parliamentary oversight: Challenges facing classic scrutiny instruments and the emergence of new forms of ‘steering’ scrutiny

Eva-Maria Poptcheva

2 The European Parliament and the European Council. A shift in the balance of power?

Wolfgang Wessels, Johannes Müller Gomez and Johannes Wolters

3 The CJEU and the Parliament’s powers since Lisbon. Judicial support to representative democracy?

Sabine Saurugger and Fabien Terpan

4 The relationship between the Committee of the Regions and the European 

Parliament: an evolving relationship?

François Decoster, Jennifer Rousselle and Vincent Delhomme

Part II The EP in the EU Policy Making

5 Taming Trilogues – The EU’s Law-Making Process in a Comparative Perspective

Justin Greenwood and Christilla Roederer-Rynning

6 The European Parliament and EU secondary legislation: Improved Scrutiny Practices and Upstream Involvement for Delegated Acts and Implementing Acts

Vicky Marissen

 

7 Out of balance? Practical experience with quasi-legislative Delegated Acts 2009-2017

Michael Kaeding

8 The European Parliament’s contribution to the EU Budget: a power game

Anne Vitrey and Frederik Mesdag

 

Part III The EP Politics

9 The European Parliament and Civil Society

Amandine Crespy and Louisa Parks

10 Parliamentary questions and representation of territorial interest in the EP

Nathalie Brack and Olivier Costa

11 The arduous way towards a uniform electoral system for the European Parliament

Rudolf Hrbek 

12 Euroscepticism at the EP Elections in 2014: A Reflection of the Different Patterns of Opposition to the EU?

Birte Wassenberg

13 Migration Policy Debates in the European Parliament. Does the Mainstream Right stand its Ground?

Brice Cristoforetti and Lara Querton

 

14 Possible Future European Union Party Political Systems

Martin Westlake 

Part IV The EP and EU Policies

15 Reforming the European Parliament’s Monetary and Economic Dialogues: Creating Accountability Through a Eurozone Oversight Subcommittee

Dermot Hodson and Michele Chang

16 The European Parliament and the energy poverty: Such a long way to develop a distinctive voice in the Energy Union

Frédérique Berrod, Louis Navé and Samuel Verschraegen

17 Parliamentary Diplomacy: Democracy support at the European Parliament

Beatrix Immenkamp and Naja Bentzen

18 The European Parliament in Security and Defence: The Parliamentary Contribution to the European Defence Union

Elena Lazarou

 

19 The European Parliament’s role in monitoring the implementation of EU trade policy

Laura Puccio and Roderick Harte

O autorze

Olivier Costa is Research Professor at the CNRS, Bordeaux, France and Director of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. He is Co-Director of the European Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of Aquitaine. His research interests include EU institutions and policies, European Parliament, French Parliament and comparative legislative politics.

Blurb

"This book looks at the evolution of the European Parliament from a wide number of angles and in depth. It well illuminates how this fascinating and unique institution - the worlds first experiment in trans-national democracy - continues to innovate, to surprise and to have a significant impact in ways (both positive and negative) that were not always predicted."

—Richard Corbett, MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, UK Labour Party leader in the European Parliament

 

“Does the European Parliament effectively represent Europe’s citizens in the legislative process? Is the EP a check on the governments, big member states, or big business? If the EP has become so powerful, why hasn’t the EU’s democratic deficit been solved? This book answers these and many other questions, extensively reviewing existing findings and setting agendas for future research. This is essential reading for scholars of European politics”

—Simon Hix, Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics, UK

 

This book assesses the changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014). It is undoubtedly the institution that has evolved the most since the 1950s. Despite the crises experienced by European integration in the last years, the Parliament is still undergoing important changes in its formal competences, its influence on policy-making, its relations with other EU institutions, its internal organisation and its internal political dynamics. Every contribution analyses the most recent aspects of these evolutions and addresses overlooked topics, providing an overview of the current state of play which challenges the mainstream intergovernmental approach of the EU. 

This project results from research conducted at the Department of European Political and Governance Studies of the College of Europe. Individual research of several policy analysts of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has contributed to this endeavour.

Olivier Costa is Research Professor at the CNRS, Bordeaux, France and Director of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. He is co-director of the European Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of Aquitaine.