1st Edition

The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality

By Philipp Kiiver Copyright 2012
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union’s Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical analysis of the EWS as well as an assessment of how national parliaments have responded to EU legislative proposals under the system. Philipp Kiiver explores whether the EWS could... Read more

1. Introduction  2. National Parliaments in the European Union 3.The Institutional and Procedural Logic of the Early Warning System 4. The Material Scope of the EWS: Subsidiarity and Other Criteria  5. The EWS as an Accountability Mechanism  6. The EWS as Legal Review: National Parliaments as Councils of State  7. National Parliaments in the Constitutional Reality of the Early Warning System

Biography

Philipp Kiiver is an associate professor of European and comparative constitutional law at Maastricht University. He obtained his law degree (2003) and his PhD (2005) from Maastricht, and specializes in international parliamentary studies. He is the co-author of an introduction to comparative constitutional law and has published several books and articles on the role of national parliaments in the European Union.