Are French Laws Written in Brussels? The Limited Europeanization of Law-Making in France and Its Implications

作者: Sylvain Brouard , Olivier Costa , Eric Kerrouche

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1502-2_5

关键词: Democratic deficitEuropeanisationRegulatory stateEconomic integrationLawPolitical scienceEuropean integrationPoliticsEuropean unionLegislature

摘要: Evaluating the power of national political systems in European Union (EU) and cross influence levels governance strongly divides scholars, politicians, citizens. Since beginning 1990s, public debate surrounding integration has often featured questions concerning its impact on system especially balance between legislative executive bodies. The “democratic deficit” concept stems from hypothesis that reinforcement Community was weakening parliaments giving increasing to governments (Moravcsik 1994) via EC Council Council. On another dimension, work Majone (1996) “European regulatory state” follows famous statement Jacques Delors about dominance EU over legislation. Nevertheless, academic field, there is still no general agreement identity “winners” “losers” integration, as evidenced various theories their divergent conclusions. One reasons for these ongoing controversies lack solid systematic data Europeanization, Europeanization laws.