National and Regional Parliaments in the EU-Legislative Procedure Post-Lisbon

... 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 mechanisms use in practice. -- Andrew Woodhouse * Common Market Law Review * This edited volume represents an engaging reflection on the evolution of [the early warning mechanism], and it usefully updates the abundant existing literature on this matter. It thoughtfully combines a more general critique of the EWM with a comparative analysis of the legal and political dimensions of its practical functioning. -- Davor Jancic, Queen Mary University of London * European Law Review *

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.

1. Introduction Anna Jonsson Cornell and Marco Goldoni Part I: Subsidiarity ReviewGoals Achieved and Future Challenges 2. Is the Early Warning Mechanism a Legal or a Political Procedure? Three Questions and a Typology Ian Cooper 3. Reconstructing the EWM? Jrgen Hettne 4. Mapping out the Procedural Requirements for the Early Warning Mechanism Anna Wetter 5. Interparliamentary Cooperation between National Parliaments Bruno Dias Pinheiro Part II: Regional Parliaments 6. Regional Parliaments and the Early Warning System: An Assessment and Some Suggestions for Reform Diane Fromage 7. A New Player in the Multi-Level Parliamentary Field. Cooperation and Communication of Regional Parliaments in the Post-Lisbon Scenario Karolina Boronska-Hryniewiecka 8. Italian Regional Councils and the Positive Externalities of the Early Warning Mechanism for National Constitutional Law Cristina Fasone 9. Belgian Parliaments and the Early Warning System Werner Vandenbruwaene and Patricia Popelier Part III: The Early Warning Mechanism in National Constitutional Orders 10. Similar but DifferentComparing the Scrutiny of the Principle of Subsidiarity within the EWM in Denmark, Finland and Sweden Anna Jonsson Cornell 11. The Scrutiny of the Principle of Subsidiarity in the Procedures and Reasoned Opinions of the Italian Chamber and Senate Nicola Lupo 12. Speaking with One Voice? The French Parliaments Use of the EWM Angela Tacea 13. Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Affairs by the UK Parliament: The Primacy of Ministerial Accountability Adam Cygan 14. Able and Willing? Early Warning System and Political Dialogue in the Bundestag and the Nationalrat Katrin Auel 15. Like Two Peas in a Pod? The Functioning of the Early Warning Mechanism in the Czech Republic and Poland Katarzyna Granat 16. The Trajectory of the Early Warning Mechanism Marco Goldoni and Anna Jonsson Cornell