What you should know now
- The origins and evolution of the European Parliament and its powers.
- How the Parliament portrays itself.
- Why the MEPs travel between Brussels and Strasbourg.
- What the powers of the Parliament are.
- How the Parliament can influence the drafting of the law proposals.
- What the role of the Parliament in the ordinary legislative procedure is.
- What the composition of the Parliament is.
- How many political groups in the Parliament are.
- What Committees do.
Further Reading
Corbett, R. (2002). European Parliament’s role in closer EU integration [Electronic version]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Déloye, Y. and Bruter, M.l (Eds.). (2007). Encyclopaedia of European elections. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Hix, S. (Ed.). (2007). Democratic politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jacobs, F., Corbett, R., and Shackleton, M. (2000). The European Parliament (4th ed). London: Harper.
Judge, D., and Earnshaw, D. (2003). The European Parliament. London: Palgrave.
Kreppel, A. (2002). The European Parliament and supranational party system: a study in institutional development [Electronic version]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Brennan, J., & Raunio, T. (2007). National parliaments within the enlarged European Union: from ‘victims’ of integration to competitive actors? London: Routledge.
Shackleton, M. (2011, May 12). The European Parliament: the major winner of the Lisbon Treaty? Lecture given at Maastricht University. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
Smith, J. (1999). Europe’s elected parliament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press for the University Association for Contemporary European Studies.
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