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L'influence des parlements européens sur la politique européenne de contrôle des frontiers: le cas du parlement français
The influence of national parliaments on the border control policies of European Union: the case of the french parliament
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Abstract The capacity of national Parliaments to influence the EU affairs has been a long debated issue in the academic literature and scholars have analyzed it mainly by assessing formal parliamentary capacities to control their executives, while looking into the activity of national Parliaments in all EU p... view more
The capacity of national Parliaments to influence the EU affairs has been a long debated issue in the academic literature and scholars have analyzed it mainly by assessing formal parliamentary capacities to control their executives, while looking into the activity of national Parliaments in all EU policy sectors. This type of analysis may be distorted: national Parliaments may act differently according to specific policy sectors. The aim of this proposal is to challenge the general findings of the academic literature on national Parliaments in EU affairs by looking into a very salient policy sector, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and more precisely into the Schengen reform, when analyzing the political control over the EU legislation and the "European" activity of the French Parliament. Even though, the Treaty of Lisbon and the 2008 Constitutional Reform gave additional powers to the French Parliament, I will show by mapping its activity in the field of borders control that, independently of its new prerogatives it has still a very weak influence over the EU legislation.... view less
Keywords
influence; France; Western European Union; European integration; Schengen Agreement; EU; parliament; legislation
Classification
European Politics
Political System, Constitution, Government
Document language
French
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 657-672
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 12 (2012) 4
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works