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Destined for Irrelevance?

Subsidiarity Control by National Parliaments


Author(s): Tapio Raunio
Publisher(s): Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Madrid, Spain
Date of publication: 19 Nov 2010
Volume number: 2010
Issue number: 36
Pages: 19
Series: Elcano Royal Institute Working Papers

Description: This paper argues that the 'early-warning mechanism' introduced in the Lisbon Treaty was mainly in response to legitimacy concerns. Then placed in the larger context of the role performed by national parliaments in EU politics, the early-warning mechanism can be seen to reinforce the perception of domestic MPs acting as the 'gatekeepers' of European integration.

General note: © 2010 Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies

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