Anna Jonsson Cornell is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University. Marco Goldoni is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School, University of Glasgow, UK.

... the edited collection reviewed here is able to add significant value to the existing field through its unified approach and its in-depth analysis ... We may like the idea of national parliaments, but if in reality this is left to a small body of people and mainly conducted through administrative tasks, to what extent can we speak of this as improving democratic legitimacy? This book contributes to our understanding of these important questions through its rigorous analysis of the mechanism’s use in practice.

• 1. Introduction Anna Jonsson Cornell and Marco GoldoniPart I: Subsidiarity Review—Goals Achieved and Future Challenges2. Is the Early Warning Mechanism a Legal or a Political Procedure? Three Questions and a Typology Ian Cooper3. Reconstructing the EWM? Jörgen Hettne4. Mapping out the Procedural Requirements for the Early Warning Mechanism Anna Wetter5. Interparliamentary Cooperation between National Parliaments Bruno Dias PinheiroPart II: Regional Parliaments6. Regional Parliaments and the Early Warning System: An Assessment and Some Suggestions for Reform Diane Fromage7. A New Player in the ‘Multi-Level Parliamentary Field’. Cooperation and Communication of Regional Parliaments in the Post-Lisbon Scenario Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka8. Italian Regional Councils and the Positive Externalities of the Early Warning Mechanism for NationalConstitutional LawCristina Fasone9. Belgian Parliaments and the Early Warning System Werner Vandenbruwaene and Patricia PopelierPart III: The Early Warning Mechanism in National Constitutional Orders10. Similar but Different—Comparing the Scrutiny of the Principle of Subsidiarity within the EWM in Denmark, Finland and Sweden Anna Jonsson Cornell11. The Scrutiny of the Principle of Subsidiarity in the Procedures and Reasoned Opinions of the Italian Chamber and Senate Nicola Lupo12. Speaking with One Voice? The French Parliament’s Use of the EWM Angela Tacea13. Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Affairs by the UK Parliament: The Primacy of Ministerial Accountability Adam Cygan14. Able and Willing? Early Warning System and Political Dialogue in the Bundestag and the Nationalrat Katrin Auel15. Like Two Peas in a Pod? The Functioning of the Early Warning Mechanism in the Czech Republic and Poland Katarzyna Granat16. The Trajectory of the Early Warning Mechanism Marco Goldoni and Anna Jonsson Cornell