National Parliaments on their Ways to Europe: Losers or Latecomers?

How do national parliaments adapt to European integration? Did the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties matter for the Europeanisation of national legislatures? This volume looks at the roles performed by the national parliaments of the EU Member States in European multi-level governance after the coming into force of the Amsterdam Treaty. An international team of political scientists and lawyers analyse the institutional and procedural development of both the EU and the member states’ level, and the issue of interparliamentary co-operation. Each contribution focuses on the negotation and ratification of the Amsterdam treaty and the relevant debates in the national parliaments, on the ways parliaments and political parties created amendments to the legal foundations for the parliamentary scrutiny with regard to EC/EU affairs. Special references and empirical evidence are made to the implementation of the Amsterdam Treaty Protocol on the role of national parliaments, which addresses both the substantial scope, the modalities and the timing of parliamentary scrutiny.