European integration and the french parliament

From ineffectual watchdog to constitutional rehabilitation and an enhanced political role

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ID6292005
AutoresFranco Rizzuto (0009-0006-3755-7496, Edge Hill University, autor de correspondencia), Francesco Rizzuto (a Edge Hill University College , Ormskirk)
Año2004
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas123-149
Fecha de publicación2004-03-21
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Legislative Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1357-2334 • E-ISSN: 1743-9337
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1357233042000318909
OpenAlexW1990508488
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

The development of the European Union is as much an opportunity as a threat to national parliaments. Our case study of the French Parliament suggests that as the process of integration has quickened in pace and broadened in scope, parliament has on successive occasions used the opportunity to strengthen its constitutional position with the introduction of Article 88‐4 and improve its capacity to scrutinise government through the adoption of a series of laws. Parliament now has the power to delay if not block the adoption of measures at European Union level by refusing to lift its scrutiny reserve. It is difficult to determine if parliament has significantly increased its influence over the government on European affairs, but it is now able to adopt potentially politically significant resolutions on all European Union issues which the government takes into account when negotiating in Union institutions. European integration has been a significant factor in the rehabilitation of the French Parliament

Economic policy · Economics · European integration · European union · Government (linguistics · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Public Administration

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