A modern guide to the European Parliament:
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Contents
Preface
xii
Sir Leon
Brittan QC
Introduction
xiv
1
The European Parliament in context
1
1.1
The paradigm of parliamentary democracy: decline,
persistence and renewal
1
Decline?
1
Persistence and renewal
4
1.2
The coalescence of European integration and the role
of parliamentary assemblies
5
Beginnings: the Consultative Assembly of the Council
of Europe
5
The first step: the Common Assembly of the
European Coal and Steel Community
7
A step back, but a conceptual advance: the European
Defence Community
12
The second step: the European Economic Community
and the European Atomic Energy Community
13
Faux Pas and
Petits Pas:
1958-78 16
Direct elections and beyond
22
The Single European Act
26
Maastricht and beyond
27
Perpetual struggle, steady advance
28
1.3
The institutional context: the Parliament's relations
with the other Community institutions
31
The European Council
31
The Council of the European Union
34
The Presidency
41
The Commission
42
The Court of Justice
43
The Court of Auditors
47
The Committee of the Regions
49
The Economic and Social Committee
50
The European Investment Bank (and the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
51
Contents
1.4
The European Parliament and the national
parliaments
53
Constitutional revision
53
From the 'European States General' to the
assises
54
From 'Congress' to Conference of the Parliaments
56
Electoral College
57
Community legislation
58
biter-parliamentary cooperation
59
Competition and culture
61
1.5
The broader context
63
Western European Union
63
The North Atlantic Alliance and the North Atlantic
Assembly
64
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe
66
EFTA
and the European Economic Area
67
The Council of Europe and the
OECD
68
2
The
electoral link
72
2.1
European citizenship
72
2.2
The right to vote and to stand as a candidate
74
2.3
Direct elections
76
2.4
Uniform elections
79
2.5
The current diversity
84
2.6
The numbers and distribution of members
86
2.7
Constituency boundaries in the United Kingdom
88
2.8
Previous results
90
1979
90
1984
92
1989
95
2.9
'Second-order national elections' or European
elections?
98
2.10
Candidates and careers
101
2.11
The European Parliament and the 'democratic deficit'
106
3
The
powers of the European Parliament
114
3.1
The power of dismissal (the censure motion)
114
3.2
The power of appointment (consultation)
116
The Commission and its President
116
The members of the Court of Auditors
118
The President of the European Monetary Institute
119
The parliamentary Ombudsman
120
3.3
Budgetary powers
121
Amendine and enacting the budeet
121
Contents
Rejecting the budget
130
Implementation and scrutiny
131
Discharge
132
3.4
Legislative powers
134
Consultation
134
Cooperation
137
Co-decision
144
Conciliation
146
The
1975
conciliation procedure
147
Budgetary conciliation
148
Conciliation (and assent) on a uniform electoral
procedure
148
Conciliation within co-decision
149
'Legislative assent'
151
The right to request initiatives
152
Legislative planning
153
3.5
External powers
155
Assent to accession
155
Assent to association
157
Consultation and information on trade agreements
158
Consultation on the Common Foreign and Security
Policy
160
Joint parliamentary committees and
interparliamentary delegations
162
The power of expression
—
the European Parliament
in the world
163
3.6
Economic and Monetary Union
163
Stage one
—
July 1990-December
1993
163
Stage two
—
January 1994-December
1996
or
1998
165
Stage three
—
January
1997
or
1999
onwards
167
Parliament's criticisms
169
3.7
Justice and home affairs
172
3.8
Parliament's other scrutiny and supervisory
powers
174
Questions
174
Written questions
174
Oral questions
175
Question
tíme
176
Follow-up to the Commission's undertakings
177
Implementing powers (comitology)
178
Committees of inquiry
179
Petitions
179
The parliamentary Ombudsman
180
Parliament as litigant
180
Contents
3.9
The power of expression and debate
181
Topical and urgent debates
181
Commission and Council statements
181
Dialogue in committee
182
Public hearings
183
4
The
politics of the European Parliament
184
4.1
Parliament's structure
184
The political groups
184
Oligopoly
184
Rules
188
Powers and structure
189
The Conference of Presidents
189
The committees
191
Rules
191
Horizontal functions and specialised powers
192
The committee chairmen
194
Parliament's hierarchy
195
Parliament's bureaucracy
196
4.2
Parliament's method
197
Reports
197 ,
Committees and rapporteurs
198
Majority building
199
The formalism of the plenary
201
Lobbyists and intergroups
205
Parliament's 'weaknesses'
207 :
4.3
Parliament's political agenda
209
;
Human rights
209
Development
210 :
The environment
211
Sexual equality and women's rights
212 '
Drug abuse and drug trafficking
213
Racism and xenophobia
214
Fraud and budgetary discipline
214
j
Democracy
215
European Union
215 ;
4.4
Parliament's future
216 ;
Evolving conventions
216 ;
Enlargements, and the
1996
intergovernmental
conference
217 ;
The longer term
221
І
Annexes
223
I
1:
The
1994
European Elections and the new Parliament
223
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2:
A short note on the European Parliament's seat
227
Contents
3:
The cost of the European Parliament
229
4:
Glossary of parliamentary terms and jargon
230
Tables
252
1:
The evolution of the European Parliament and its
powers through the jurisprudence of the Court of
Justice
252
2:
Seats, population per
МЕР,
and constituencies/voting
system in the Member States
258
3:
The different numbers of members of the European
Parliament, proposed and decided,
1951-95 260
4:
Turnout in European elections to
1989 261
5:
Required parliamentary majorities
261
6:
The evolution of compulsory and non-compulsory
expenditure as proportions of overall expenditure
264
7:
Take-up of parliamentary amendments under the
cooperation procedure
265
8: 1993:
a year's parliamentary activity in figures
266
Bibliography
267
Index
282 |
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