The European Parliament's Role in Closer Eu Integration

✍ Scribed by Richard Corbett

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 445
• Category: Library

✦ 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 14
Foreword......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
1 Theoretical Approaches to European Integration......Page 22
2 What to Expect of the European Parliament?......Page 67
3 A New Political Network......Page 87
4 Exploiting its Existing Powers......Page 113
5 Reform within the Treaties......Page 152
6 Parliament Turns to Treaty Revision......Page 163
7 The Draft Treaty......Page 182
8 From the Draft Treaty to the 1985 Intergovernmental Conference......Page 194
9 The Intergovernmental Conference of 1985......Page 239
10 Making the Most of the Single European Act......Page 275
11 Relaunching the Ship......Page 297
12 The IGCs on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union......Page 329
13 Making the Most of Maastricht......Page 364
14 Overall Conclusions......Page 382
15 Postscript: The Treaty of Amsterdam......Page 390
Notes......Page 399
Bibliography......Page 428
Index......Page 436