The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union [Hardcover]

This handbook offers a comprehensive picture of the European activities of national parliaments in all 28 member states of the European Union. In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty, it assesses the extent to which national legislatures actually matter in European governance.1. Introduction; Olivier Rozenberg and Claudia HefftlerPART I: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES2. National Parliaments in the European Union: Conceptual Choices in the EU's Constitutional Debate; Afke Groen and Thomas Christiansen 3. Fighting Back? And, if so, how? Measuring Parliamentary Strength and Activity in EU Affairs; Katrin Auel, Olivier Rozenberg and Angela Tacea 4. Interparliamentary Cooperation in the European Union: Patterns, Problems and Potential; Claudia Hefftler and Katjana Gattermann 5. Parliamentary Administrations in the Scrutiny of EU Decision-making; Anna-Lena H?genauer and Thomas Christiansen 6. Legislative Regions After Lisbon: A New Role for Regional Assemblies?; Garcia Vara Arribas and Anna-Lena H?genauerPART II: THE SIX FOUNDING MEMBERS, 19527. Belgium: Institutional and Administrative Adaptation but Limited Political Interest; Tom Delreux and Fran?ois Randour 8. The French Parliament and the EU 'Shadow Control' Through the Government Majority; Anja Thomas and Angela Tacea 9. With a little Help from the Constitutional Court. The Bundestag on its way to an Active Policy-shaper; Oliver H?ing 10. Italy: Still Looking for a New Era in the Making of EU Policy; Sabrina Cavatorto 11. Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies and European Union Affairs; Astrid Spreitzer 12. The Dutch Parliament and EU Affairs: Decentralizing Scrutiny; Anna-Lena H?genauerPART III: FIRST ENLARGEMENT, 197313. The Danish Folketing and EU Affairs: Is the Danish Model of Parliamentary Scrutiny Still Best Practice?; Mette Buskj?r Christensen 14. Long Train Running: The Slowly-developed (and slowly-developing) Role of Ireland's Oireachtas in European Union Affairs; Gavin Barrett 15. Westminster and the European Union Ever Iló#