The failure of national parliaments

摘要: National parliaments are commonly held to have ‘failed’ in their dealings with European institutions and impact upon the Community's legislative process. This article provides a ‘revisionist’ analysis challenge this ‘orthodoxy’. First, national provided legitimating frame within which development of Community has been able take place. Second, there no absolute, inexorable decline influence exerted by EC policy If anything, events since signing Treaty on Union December 1991 suggest that bargained increased powers scrutiny over legislation. Third, it needs be noted is ‘dual democratic deficit’ Union. The problem ‘democratic evident not solely accretion decision‐making power at level, but also fact own states exert limited contr...