Parliaments in EU Economic Governance
This book considers national parliaments and the European Parliaments role in European Union (EU) economic governance. It examines the recent strengthening of parliamentary involvement, limitations to improvements, and where and how democratic deficits still exist. It also provides the basis for some reflections concerning possible future evolutions and improvements to EU economic governance.
The EUs economic governance framework has been significantly strengthened as a response to the 2008 economic and financial crisis, and the establishment of a new Banking Union in 2013. It is thus key to determine whether these additional transfers of powers to the EU level have been accompanied by an equivalent empowerment of the national and European legislatures, allowing them to ensure adequate democratic legitimation. The chapters comprehensively re- examine the democratic (throughput) legitimacy of, and within, the EUs economic governance by focusing on national parliaments, on the European Parliament, and on mechanisms for interparliamentary cooperation.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
Diane Fromage is Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on parliaments in the European Union and on the European Banking Union. She is also interested in Independent Fiscal Institutions.
Ton van den Brink is Associate Professor of European Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the field of European constitutional law, the national dimension of European integration, and the legal aspects of EU economic governance.
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Gavin Barrett is a professor at the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He is a member of the Irish Centre for European Law, a Council member of the Institute of International and European Affairs, and a Fellow of the Dublin European Institute.
Ton van den Brink is Associate Professor of European Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the field of European constitutional law, the national dimension of European integration, and the legal aspects of EU economic governance.
Mette Buskjr Rasmussen is an external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and an EU Advisor at the Copenhagen EU Office, Denmark. Her research interests include political science.