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A New Form of Democratic Oversight in the EU: The Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group for Europol
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
... police cooperation (Europol). This paper chronicles and explains the lengthy legal and political process leading up to the first meeting of the Europol JPSG in October 2017, and the establishment of its ...
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The Contribution of COSAC to Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny in the EU: A Practitioner’s View
(Bruno A. Dias Pinheiro/Essay)
(Bruno A. Dias Pinheiro/Essay)
... if NPs are benefiting from COSAC or are they, on the contrary, lagging behind and lost amidst so many interparliamentary meetings? It is argued that COSAC occupies a key role in the multipolarised system ...
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Monetary and Fiscal Arrangements for the Eurozone. Some Unconventional Proposals
(Fabio Masini/Essay)
(Fabio Masini/Essay)
... euro area, and the EU at large, are able to satisfy some of their crucial needs. The papers which make up this special issue were presented in Florence, at a meeting held in the framework of a Jean ...
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National parliaments and governmental accountability in the crisis: theory and practice
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
This contribution studies the question of governmental accountability in the crisis. It looks at how three Member State’s parliaments – French, German and Spanish– have exchanged on European Council meetings ...
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Intergovernmental relations in Spain and the United Kingdom: the institutionalization of multilateral cooperation in asymmetric polities
(Víctor Cuesta-López/Essay)
(Víctor Cuesta-López/Essay)
... to the evolution of IGR in Spain and the UK and, particularly, to the progressive institutionalization of the multilateral ministerial meetings (the Sectoral Conferences in Spain and the Joint Ministerial ...
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The Eurozone decisions: a step towards a European lender of last resort, but others must follow
(Alberto Majocchi/Editorial)
(Alberto Majocchi/Editorial)
The decisions taken by the recent meeting of the Heads of State and Government - held in Brussels on 21 July 2011- strengthen the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and constitute a first step ...
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EU’s Projection of Security Peace Missions as a Tool either for Fusion or Fragmentation
(Gianni Bonvicini/Essay)
(Gianni Bonvicini/Essay)
If one looks at the rapid growth of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since the Blair-Chirac meeting of Saint-Malo in 1998 and in particular at the launch of several crisis management missions ...