National and Regional Parliaments in the EU-Legislative Procedure Post-Lisbon
Subtitle: The Impact of the Early Warning Mechanism
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781782259176
Subjects: Treaty on european union (1992); Legislative bodies, europe; Parliamentary practice; Constitutional law, europe; International and municipal law; Central-local government relations
Description: Much has changed in European constitutional law after the Lisbon Treaty, not least the efforts to increase democratic legitimacy by engaging national legislatures and introducing a stricter subsidiary review process, namely the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM). This collection looks at how national parliaments have adapted to their new roles and looks at how the new system has impacted on relations between the EU legislative bodies and national parliaments. A team of experts from across Europe explore the effect of the EWM on the national constitutional orders; analyse the regional impact of EWM and evaluate the new system of scrutiny