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EurActiv.com / EurActiv,fr / EurActiv.pl, 20 November 2015 […] “The introduction of a ‘red card’ mechanism would significantly alter the constitutional equilibrium in the EU and transform national parliaments into a collective veto player that could block the European Commission’s legislative initiatives, said Valentin Kreilinger, a research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute.
David Cameron has sent a letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, outlining the key elements that he will seek in a renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership. As Valentin Kreilinger writes, one of Cameron’s demands is to strengthen the role of national parliaments in the EU’s legislative process, with the provision of …
In an guest article for the series about David Cameron’s reform demands on Manuel Müller’s blog “Der (europäische) Föderalist”, I wrote about the “red card” idea (Link). D(e)F @tineurope: The UK wants to play cards: Stronger national parliaments in the EU https://t.co/vb1eAGRFhz #EUref #EUreform #EUreferendum — Manuel Müller (@foederalist) November 1, 2015 .@tineurope questions the …
On 9 October 2015 I spoke at the conference „National Parliaments in the EU: Towards Greater Legitimacy of European Affairs“ in Stockholm at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), organised in collaboration with the Centre for European Reform (CER).
In his blog post, Valentin Kreilinger provides an overview of the participation of national parliaments on the third package for Greece. He shows that parliamentary power in the euro area is distributed asymmetrically. Only the German Bundestag votes on the start and the result of negotiations. In Estonia, Finland and Austria, deliberation and voting is …
The info-graphic to my new blog post for the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin, also published by the Hertie School of Governance (Link): [tweet https://twitter.com/delorsinstitut/status/620973152307445760 align=’center’]
Am 22. Juni 2015 haben die Präsidenten von Europäischer Kommission, Europäischem Rat, Euro-Gruppe, Europäischer Zentralbank und Europäischem Parlament den Bericht „Die Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion vollenden“ vorgelegt. Dieser Bericht wurde am 26. Juni 2015 von den Staats- und Regierungschefs „zur Kenntnis genommen“ und der EU-Ministerrat wurde ersucht, ihn „umgehend zu prüfen“. Der nun angestoßene Prozess erscheint …
(Photo: European Parliament on flickr) Without any doubt, the annual work programme of the European Commission (called “A new start” for 2015 and published on 16 December 2014) is an important policy document that receives quite some attention from the other EU institutions (earlier this year, the splits in the European Parliament were noteworthy: see …
The principle of increasing the role of national parliaments in the EU’s legislative process has been promoted by several political actors, with the Treaty of Lisbon introducing a so called ‘yellow card’ system under which national parliaments can force the European Commission to review a legislative proposal. Valentin Kreilinger writes on recent decisions and initiatives …