{"id":1785,"date":"2013-03-13T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/?page_id=1785"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:11:58","slug":"what-you-should-know-now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/learning\/module-1-understanding-eu-institutions\/the-european-parliament\/what-you-should-know-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What you should know now"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The origins and evolution of the European Parliament and its powers.<\/li>\n<li>How the Parliament portrays itself.<\/li>\n<li>Why the MEPs travel between Brussels and Strasbourg.<\/li>\n<li>What the powers of the Parliament are.<\/li>\n<li>How the Parliament can influence the drafting of the law proposals.<\/li>\n<li>What the role of the Parliament in the ordinary legislative procedure is.<\/li>\n<li>What the composition of the Parliament is.<\/li>\n<li>How many political groups in the Parliament are.<\/li>\n<li>What Committees do<b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Corbett, R. (2002).\u00a0<i>European Parliament\u2019s role in closer EU integration\u00a0<\/i>[Electronic version]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9loye, Y. and Bruter, M.l (Eds.). (2007).\u00a0<i>Encyclopaedia of European elections.\u00a0<\/i>Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Hix, S. (Ed.). (2007).\u00a0<i>Democratic politics in the European Parliament<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, F., Corbett, R., and Shackleton, M. (2000).\u00a0<i>The European Parliament\u00a0<\/i>(4<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>ed). London: Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Judge, D., and Earnshaw, D. (2003).\u00a0<i>The European Parliament<\/i>. London: Palgrave.<\/p>\n<p>Kreppel, A. (2002).\u00a0<i>The European Parliament and supranational party system: a study in institutional development \u00a0<\/i>[Electronic version]<i>.\u00a0<\/i>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brennan, J., &amp; Raunio, T. (2007).\u00a0<i>National parliaments within the enlarged European Union: from &#8216;victims&#8217; of integration to competitive actors<\/i>? London: Routledge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Shackleton, M. (2011, May 12).\u00a0The European Parliament: the major winner of the Lisbon Treaty?\u00a0Lecture given at Maastricht University. Retrieved January 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, J. (1999).\u00a0<i>Europe\u2019s elected parliament.\u00a0<\/i>Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press for the University Association for Contemporary European Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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