scholarly journals Turning your back on the EU. The role of Eurosceptic parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Hernández ◽  
Hanspeter Kriesi
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Introduction: How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Van der Brug ◽  
Katjana Gattermann ◽  
Claes H. De Vreese
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Electoral Behaviour ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
The Eu

This issue brings together papers that focus on the question of whether and in which ways the 2014 European Parliament elections were different from previous ones. This is important from the point of view of emerging scholarship on changes in the EU and from the point of view of the self-proclaimed ‘This time it’s different!’ slogan from the Parliament. The papers centre around three themes: 1) the role of the <em>Spitzenkandidaten</em>, 2) media and voters, and 3) electoral behaviour.

scholarly journals The Increasing Power of the European Parliament: Negotiating the eu-India Free Trade Agreement

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
International Level ◽  
Game Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

AbstractSince the Lisbon Treaty increased the legal role of the European Parliament (ep) ineutrade policy, there has been a debate about the extent to which these legal competencies have translated into actual influence over the content and outcome ofeutrade negotiations. Using the trade negotiations between theeuand India as a case study, this article argues that the impact of theephas indeed been significant. Through two-level game analysis, which extends its domestic focus to include theepas a domestic constituent, it demonstrates how theephas affected theeuwin-set in ways that have both hindered and facilitated agreement at the international level between theeuand India. It also shows how theephas affected the negotiating dynamics and how theeunegotiators have had their preferences somewhat compromised by theepin their attempt at reaching an agreement with India.

Legal Acts and the Challenges of Democratic Accountability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Curtin
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Treaty Reform ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
The Eu

Increasing the role of the European Parliament in legislative and executive rule-making was a key objective of the Lisbon Treaty reformers in their endeavours to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the EU. Yet, the Lisbon reform leaves much room for improvement with respect to accountability in the new system of legal acts. The analysis reveals the wide discrepancy between the formal rules and informal practices of the institutions post-Lisbon, giving rise to further accountability concerns. The main problems are the inadequacy of democratic checks over the Council, limited resources and powers of the European Parliament, increased reliance on trilogues at the expense of open dialogue and deliberation, and insufficient public access to institutions’ documents. In conclusion, it is suggested that even in the absence of formal Treaty reform, values such as publicity and participation could be crucial normative standards to be included in the further design of EU decision-making procedures.

scholarly journals Punching Below Its Weight: The Role of the European Parliament in Politicised Consultation Procedures

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Chiara Vinciguerra
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Burden Sharing ◽  
Unintended Effect ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Level I ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

With Lisbon, the European Parliament formally acquired an equal standing to that of the Council of the EU in the making of policies in the AFSJ (area of freedom, security and justice). However, the growing political salience of policy issues at stake and bottom-up politicisation in the AFSJ has had the unintended effect of undermining the European Parliament’s internal unity even under consultation procedures. To show how this played out in practice during Europe’s migration and refugee crisis, this article analyses the European Parliament’s role, preferences, and bargaining position in the making of two Refugee Relocation Decisions (Council Decisions 2015/1523 and 2015/1601) under consultation procedure. To do so, this article exploits Putnam’s two-level framework (level I and II politics throughout the policy-making process) to explore early agenda-setting attempts and groups’ positions on issues of refugee relocation and burden-sharing, as they were formally stated in their position papers and expressed at the LIBE Committee and at plenary. This article shows that the high domestic salience and politicization of the issues at stake left MEPs torn between competing principals at home and within their European Parliament political groups and had the effect of weakening overall unity on the issue of refugee relocation.

scholarly journals Visions of Europe: emerging challenges for the European project in the aftermath of the 2014 European Parliament elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Giovannini ◽  
Laura Polverari ◽  
Antonella Seddone
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
European Public ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
The Eu

The European Union (EU) is facing a profound political crisis of leadership, legitimacy, and purpose. This article provides an analysis of these key dimensions of crisis. It does so by examining the way in which they intersect and their impact on the EU’s institutional architecture, on the politicization of the European public sphere, on the wider dynamics of representation that underpin these processes, and on the political systems and polities of the member states. Drawing on such analysis, we assess the 2014 European Parliament election with reference to the findings of the six articles included in this collection. We conclude with a critical reflection on the competing and often piecemeal ‘visions of Europe’ that emerge from the studies in this volume and the challenges they pose to the EU project.

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