Contribution of the European Parliament to multilevel governance: Building on a potential for a fuller right of legislative initiative for the European Parliament
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30-03-2017
This analysis was prepared in the framework of the EU Fellowship Programme and presents the results of research reflecting on the full right of legislative initiative of the European Parliament in the light of the experience of the US Congress. It is based on data gathered for the purposes of the research from national parliaments of 26 EU Member States, analysis of 59 replies by the European Commission to the European Parliament's legislative initiative reports and a case study on 3 complex US laws, carried out on the basis of 15 interviews with Congressional staff.
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- administrative transparency
- citizens' Europe
- common commercial policy
- economic geography
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- European construction
- European Parliament
- European treaties
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- executive power and public service
- GEOGRAPHY
- governance
- international affairs
- international negotiations
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international trade
- legislative initiative
- national parliament
- parliament
- parliamentary proceedings
- POLITICS
- TRADE
- trade agreement
- trade policy
- transparency in decision-making