Democracy and subsidiarity in the Eu
National parliaments, regions and civil society in the decision-making process
Pubb. online: 2013
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-31431-4
DOI: 10.978.8815/314314
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-31431-4
DOI: 10.978.8815/314314
Indice
- Credits
- The Nova Universitas Consortium
- The LUISS School of Government (SOG)
- Abbreviations
- Marta Cartabia Introduction
- PART ONE. THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES WITHIN THE EURO-NATIONAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
- Cesare Pinelli The provisions on democratic principles in the EU Treaties. The decision-making process
- 1. The «joint-decision trap»
- 2. The controversy «democratic deficit» vs. «postnational governance» and its hidden consequences
- 3. Some comments on the «provisions on democratic principles»
- 4. Why national governments dislike political accountability at the EU level
- 5. Reflections on the institutional consequences of the Eurozone’s crisis
- Andrea Simoncini Beyond representative democracy: the challenge of participatory democracy and the boundless galaxy of civil society
- 1. The methodological challenge posed by the European integration process
- 2. The new European democracy. Representative vs. participatory democracy
- 3. What is European civil society?
- 4. How does civil society affect EU governance?
- 5. Towards a three-dimensional constitutional space? Some open questions on the role of civil society in European governance
- Pier Luigi Petrillo European Union and pressure groups. A legal perspective
- 1. Introduction: lobbies and democracies
- 2. Models of regulation of lobbying
- 3. Conclusion: EU legal approach to lobby as a possible model for Italy? Probably yes...
- Marta Ferrara Citizens in the European democracy: to be or not to be?
- 1. A short historical background
- 2. Democratic participation in the Treaty of Lisbon
- 3. Subsidiarity and democratic demands: a difficult marriage
- PART TWO. SUBSIDIARITY AND NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS. RATIONALE, SCOPE AND EFFECTS OF THE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
- Nicola Lupo National parliaments in the European integration process: re-aligning politics and policies
- 1. The entrance of «national parliaments» into the EU decision-making processes
- 2. The term «national parliament» in the EU «compound» constitutional law
- 3. The «European powers» of the national parliaments and their possible classifications
- 4. The subsidiarity check and the «political dialogue»...
- 5. ... in the light of the first institutional practice
- 6. Conclusion: The acceleration of the «Europeanisation» process in the national parliaments
- Barbara Guastaferro Reframing subsidiarity inquiry from an «EU value-added» to an «EU non-encroachment» test?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Reframing subsidiarity inquiry: from an «EU value-added» to an «EU non encroachment» test?
- 3. The potential added value of art. 4.2 TEU on the protection of «national identities» and «essential State functions»
- 4. The proposal on the award of concession contracts
- 5. The proposal on the temporary reintroduction of controls at internal borders in exceptional circumstances
- 6. The proposal on the Community financial measures for the implementation of the common fisheries policy
- 7. Concluding remarks
- Cristina Fasone Competing concepts of subsidiarity in the early warning system
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The myth of the democratic deficit and the multilevel parliamentary field of the European Union
- 3. MacCormick’s theory on the subsidiarity deficit and the four dimensions of subsidiarity
- 4. The ambiguity of the principle of subsidiarity in the European Treaties and in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice
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5. Interpreting the early warning system through the lens of MacCormick’s theory
- 5.1. The principle of subsidiarity and the parliaments of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: the positive externalities of the early warning system
- 5.2. Political dialogue as tool for filling the subsidiarity deficit
- 5.3. Case studies of cooperation amongst parliaments of the European Union and the effects on subsidiarity
- 6. Conclusions
- Elena Maioli Castriota Scanderbech Can national parliaments contribute through the early warning system to the EU decision-making process?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. National parliaments: gradual recognition within the EU architecture
- 3. The subsidiarity check
- 4. The implementation of the early warning system: does it work?
- 5. Conclusions
- PART THREE. OMOGENEITY AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE «EUROPEAN» PROCEDURES OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
- Davide Alberto Capuano The role of national parliaments in the legislative process of the EU. A view from inside the Italian Parliament
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Three directions for the enhanced role of national parliaments
- 3. National parliaments and the scrutiny on the Government in EU affairs
- 4. The «political dialogue»
- 5. The early warning system
- 6. The notion of subsidiarity in the European Union
- 7. The early warning system at work: the case of the Monti-II regulation
- 8. The cooperation of national parliaments with the European Parliament
- 9. Cooperation amongst national parliament: individual or collective action?
- 10. The main fields of action of inter-parliamentary cooperation: criminal matters, common defense and economic governance
- 11. Conclusions
- Oliver Höing Differentiation of parliamentary powers. The German Constitutional Court and the German Bundestag within the financial crisis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Outside the EU legal framework – classifying parliamentary powers
- 3. BVerfG judgements related to the financial and debt crisis
- 4. Classifying budgetary powers – first empirical evidence
- 5. Conclusions
- Maria Romaniello Beyond the Constitutional «bicameral blueprint»: Europeanisation and national identities in Belgium
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theorizing the Europeanisation of national parliaments
- 3. Bicameralism in federal political systems
- 4. The dual Belgian federal system in a multi-level European Union
- 5. The Lisbon Treaty and the Belgian definition of national parliaments
- 6. Assessing the Europeanisation on the Belgian parliamentary system
- 7. Conclusions
- PART FOUR. THE PARTICIPATION OF REGIONS IN EU AFFAIRS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY
- Marco Olivetti The regions in the EU decision-making processes
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. A Europe of States and its international law origins: «Landesblind»
- 3. The impact of blindness on regions
- 4. Regionalisation processes in Europe 1970-2000
- 5. Regions emerge at Bruxelles: overcoming blindness?
- 6. Facing the regional dimension of Europe at national level: «letting them in»
- 7. The Committee of the Regions
- 8. Conclusions
- Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka Regions and subsidiarity after the Treaty of Lisbon: overcoming the «regional blindness»?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Legislative control of «what», «how» and by «whom»: the problematic nature of the subsidiarity principle
- 3. Theory versus reality: the regional experience under the early warning system
- 4. Subsidiarity monitoring through the Committee of the Regions: towards an enhanced cooperation?
- 5. Conclusions
- PART FIVE. THE JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY
- Werner Vandenbruwaene The ambivalent methods of subsidiarity review
- 1. Deconstructing subsidiarity
- 2. Judicial review: state of play
- 3. Elevating the intensity of judicial scrutiny
- 4. Conclusions
- Luca Di Donato Impact Assessment and control of the compliance with the principle of subsidiarity in the EU
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Subsidiarity monitoring through Impact Assessment
- 3. Multiples roles for «ex ante» evaluation
- 4. The «new» jurisprudence of the CJEU
- 5. Analysis of the case law: Impact Assessment as a justification tool in judicial review
- 6. Committee of the Regions
- 7. Conclusions
- Katarzyna Granat Institutional design of the Member States for the ex post subsidiarity scrutiny
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Institutional evolution of national parliaments
- 3. Ex post review at the EU level
- 4. Ex post review at the national level
- 5. Comparison of subsidiarity action provisions
- 6. Conclusions
- References