National parliaments as ‘multi-arena players’ in the European Union? Insights into Poland and France

Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Karolina

doi:10.1080/07036337.2020.1800672

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“…The novelty of this concept lies in the notion of 'playerness'-as a metaphor of agencywhich equips national parliaments with the capability to exert influence over the course of the European game (cf. Borońska-Hryniewiecka, 2020).…”

Section: The Problematic Purpose Of the Ipc Secg In The Context Of Inter-parliamentary Cooperationmentioning

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Accountability Revisited: Parliamentary Perspectives on the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination, and Governance

Borońska-Hryniewiecka

2021

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<p>This article aims to verify whether, and to what extent, the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance (IPC SECG) has become an accountability enhancing arena through which domestic legislatures can better scrutinize the process of the European Semester. While there is a broad scholarship on the difficult institutionalization of the IPC SECG and controversies related to its operation, little has been said about its actual performance as an accountability enhancing platform, especially in the context of domestic interactions between parliaments and executives in the area of economic governance. Despite it being operational for several years, the scholarship lacks focus on the national parliaments’ perspective with regard to this Conference’s effectiveness. Against this background, drawing from comparative data obtained from questionnaires and interviews, this article addresses the above-mentioned aspects from an actor-oriented approach and delves deeper into parliamentary perceptions of the SECG Conference. Findings indicate that attendance at the SECG Conference by MPs has neither significantly affected their domestic parliamentary activity in the area of economic governance and budgetary policy, nor improved the existing domestic legislative-executive relationship in this context. The Conference’s procedural weaknesses are only one part of the problem, another being the marginalized domestic position of parliaments in the European Semester procedure.</p>

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Section: The Problematic Purpose Of the Ipc Secg In The Context Of Inter-parliamentary Cooperationmentioning

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Accountability Revisited: Parliamentary Perspectives on the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination, and Governance

Borońska-Hryniewiecka

2021

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“…6 The categorizations of the V4 parliaments as "scrutiny-laggard" in the case of the Czech Poslanecká sněmovna, 7 "policy shapers" in the cases of the Polish Sejm 8 and the Hungarian Országgyűlés, 9 and "government watchdog" in the case of the Slovak Národná rada, 10 are based on pre-2014 data and thus call for an updated in-depth study. The handful of more recent works focus either on the eU-oriented activity of individual V4 parliaments 11 or on narrow issues such as parliamentary oversight of Brexit negotiations, 12 the principle of subsidiarity, 13 or the transposition of eU law. 14 More importantly, the performance of the V4 parliaments has never been analyzed in a comparative perspective within a single study.…”

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs

Borońska-Hryniewiecka

Grinc

2021

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article offers the first ever comparative analysis of the involvement of V4 parliaments in the sphere of European Union (EU) affairs. Its underlying research objective is to determine what conditions V4’s parliamentary participation in various EU-oriented activities such as domestic scrutiny of the government’s EU policy, the political dialogue with the Commission, the Early Warning System for subsidiarity control, and the green card initiative. Based on the actual scrutiny output, parliamentary minutes, and data from questionnaires, we address the questions: (1) To what extent domestic legislatures act as autonomous as opposed to government-supporting actors in these arenas? (2) Do they mostly act as EU veto players, or try to contribute constructively to the EU policy-making process by bringing alternative policy ideas? (3) What are their motivations for engaging in direct dialogue with EU institutions in addition to domestic scrutiny? and (4) How MPs envisage their own EU-oriented roles? While the article reveals that V4 parliaments mostly act as gatekeepers in the sphere of EU affairs, it also casts a new light on the previous literature findings related to the EU-oriented performance of the Czech and Polish lower chambers. We conclude that, generally, V4 parliaments refrain from fully exploiting their relatively strong formal prerogatives in EU affairs—a fact that can be partly explained by the composition of their ruling majorities.

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From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession

Wunsch

Olszewska

2022

Journal of European Integration

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National parliaments as ‘multi-arena players’ in the European Union? Insights into Poland and France

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Accountability Revisited: Parliamentary Perspectives on the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination, and Governance

Accountability Revisited: Parliamentary Perspectives on the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination, and Governance

Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs

From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession

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