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A Political Evaluation of the Early Warning Mechanism [1]

The International Spectator [2]

The Emperor's New Clothes? A Political Evaluation of the Early Warning Mechanism

Authors:
David Bokhorst [3]
Adriaan Schout [4]
Jan Marinus Wiersma [5]
19/06/2015

Recent years have seen several studies and proposals from national parliaments (NPs) to deepen their direct involvement in European decision-making, most notably by strengthening the early warning mechanism (EWM – also known as yellow card procedure). The EWM is a technical-legalistic procedure that is restricted to subsidiarity. This ‘straightjacket’ is too limited as a monitoring tool for European policies more broadly and can hardly be seen as a response to current democratic concerns. Framing the EWM as a democratic solution to empower NPs thus risks becoming one of Europe’s empty mantras.

Keywords: Early Warning Mechanism, national parliaments, legitimacy, subsidiarity

Details

  • Details

    p. 93-108
  • In:
    The International Spectator [2]
  • Issue

    50/2
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    10.1080/03932729.2015.1024083

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c10/political-evaluation-early-warning-mechanism [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/international-spectator [3] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/david-bokhorst [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/adriaan-schout [5] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/jan-marinus-wiersma [6] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2015.1024083