The Position of national Parliaments within the new EU Economic Governance
The Position of national Parliaments within the new EU Economic Governance

Summary/Abstract: Recent initiatives in the field of the economic governance and the Economic and Monetary Union, similarly as to treaty revisions, influence the position of national Parliaments in the EU and create an impulse to rethink domestic arrangements for handling EU affairs in individual Member States, as well as to redefine the system of inter-parliamentary co-operation. As a consequence, the discussion concerning the democratic legitimacy of economic governance opens a new chapter in evolution of the role of European national legislatures in the EU. The aim of this article is to present the legal and political aspects of the national Parliaments’ position within the new EU economic governance, and assess their ability to ensure democratic legitimacy in the context of their current legal position in the EU.

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