The European Parliament’s Role in Closer EU Integration

✍ Scribed by Richard Corbett MEP (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 445
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Nearly 20 years after it first became an elected institution, it is time to assess the impact of the European Parliament on the process of European integration. This book does so, beginning with an analysis of what integration theorists expected of the directly elected Parliament when such an idea was still on the drawing board and then examining what the Parliament has achieved in practice. It concludes that the Parliament has been extremely significant, though not always in the ways initially expected.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Theoretical Approaches to European Integration....Pages 1-45
What to Expect of the European Parliament....Pages 46-65
A New Political Network....Pages 66-91
Exploiting its Existing Powers....Pages 92-130
Reform within the Treaties....Pages 131-141
Parliament Turns to Treaty Revision1....Pages 142-160
The Draft Treaty....Pages 161-172
From the Draft Treaty to the 1985 Intergovernmental Conference....Pages 173-217
The Intergovernmental Conference of 1985....Pages 218-253
Making the Most of the Single European Act....Pages 254-275
Relaunching the Ship....Pages 276-307
The IGCs on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union....Pages 308-342
Making the Most of Maastricht....Pages 343-360
Overall Conclusions....Pages 361-368
Postscript: The Treaty of Amsterdam....Pages 369-377
Back Matter....Pages 378-424

✦ Subjects

Social History; Political Science; European Union Politics; European History; International Relations; Democracy

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