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- Title
DEMOCRATIC IMPROVEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AFTER THE LISBON TREATY REFORMS: WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED?
- Authors
Petrushevska, Tatjana; Runcheva-Tasev, Hristina; Apostolovska-Stepanoska, Milena
- Abstract
The paper focuses on the current state of the position of the European Parliament in the European Union after the institutional reforms that have been introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. The key issue that is examined is whether the Lisbon reforms made stronger European Parliament, an institution that is more efficient and closer to the citizens. First of all, the Treaty of Lisbon changed the legislative procedure. The previously known co-decision procedure has been transformed into regular legislative procedure with the Treaty of Lisbon. Secondly, the Treaty of Lisbon made significant changes in another area, increasing the political control of the Parliament over the Commission. Third, but not less important that the previous two is that with the Article 11 section 4 of the Lisbon Treaty was introduced a right for citizens initiative in the EU. Namely "not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the European Commission, within the framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union isrequired for the purpose of implementing the Treaties. The paper addresses the main reforms that have been made with the Treaty of Lisbon regarding the powers of the European Parliament. The authors try to answer whether the European Parliament after the reforms become a stronger institution and what are the changes that have to be taken into consideration when another intergovernmental conference with institutional reforms like main topic is going to be scheduled.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; EUROPEAN Parliament; TREATY on European Union (1992). Protocols, etc., 2007 December 13
- Publication
Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1857-8683
- Publication type
Article