The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union

Barrett, Gavin

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“…A number of important features of the Irish parliamentary engagement with EU a airs therefore deserve attention (Barrett, 2018). The most obvious marker of parliamentary weakness lies in the committee system There is a vast di erence between 'making recommendations' to ministers and having the power to change or at least to in uence government policy substantially.…”

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Ireland and European Governance

O’Brennan

2021

The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics

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Irish membership of the European Communities in 1973 represented the most significant development in the life of the independent state, and it helped to refashion the economic, political, and social landscape. Membership of the EU brought considerable change to domestic politics, and also to the executive and administration. Adjusting to a dynamic rules-based supranational order required adaptability and pragmatism. This chapter evaluates the impact of ‘Europe’ on Ireland, and the extent to which there are patterns of ‘Europeanization’ in politics and public life as a result of almost five decades of EU membership. It argues that, domestically, Ireland used EU membership as a vehicle for modernization, while externally, the EU provided an increasingly important ‘geopolitical anchor’. And although this Europeanization has been far from uniform, the effect has been a move towards a more self-conscious ‘choice for Europe’. Brexit has confirmed this renewed commitment to European integration.

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