Titlebook: Shaping Parliamentary Democracy; Collected Memories f Alfredo De Feo,Michael Shackleton Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Aut

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Influencing and Shaping Policy,r of the Council. The path from limited budgetary powers to full codecision with the Lisbon Treaty has been marked by the development of formal competences and informal mechanisms, which have together led to influence and shape decisions, with direct consequences on the lives of EU citizens. This ch

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Scrutinising and Holding to Account,d by former MEPs: the power of dismissal, effectively used but once, in 1999, when the Santer Commission resigned; the power of appointment, in particular through hearings but also by imposing conditions for appointment; and the evolution of the Parliament’s general ability to scrutinize what the ex

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Making a Mark Beyond the EU,he attitudes of members to their work in external relations and then considers the different instruments they have developed to enable them to have an impact. It looks in particular at the power of consent, the use of the budget, the framing of legislation, the development of election observation as

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Looking to the Future,ere is no longer the automatic assumption that what has been achieved by the Parliament over 40?years in furthering integration will necessarily be sustained. The responses of former MEPs to this change can be categorised as optimistic, pessimistic and pragmatic and reflect different views about the

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Communicating the Work of the Parliament,on is a two-way process, the chapter also looks at how the external world, the general public and interest groups, gave their views to MEPs and how such communication linked to the issues of transparency and the autonomy of individual MEPs.

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