The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe

This book offers a comprehensive and timely analysis of the parliamentary dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) - an unprecedented experiment in which parliamentary representation met transnational citizen participation in the European Union (EU).

Autorentext

Karolina Boroska-Hryniewiecka is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and a member of the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Wrocaw, Poland. She is also an Associate Researcher at the CESSP of the Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

Lucy Kinski is Postdoc in European Union Politics at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) and the Political Science Department at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. When parliamentary representation meets citizen participation: Analysing the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) Part 1: The host perspective 2. Driving democratic change? The European Parliament's reform agenda in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe 3. The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe: Between ownership and diverging political visions Part 2: The guest perspective 4. The Portuguese Assembleia da República in the Conference on the Future of Europe: Setting the scene for inter-parliamentary cooperation 5. Building consensus among national parliaments: Ambitions and challenges of the French parliament during CoFoE 6. The Czech parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe: Observers, facilitators, and absentees 7. The Swedish Riksdag and the Future of Europe: Defending the status quo 8. The Spanish parliamentary involvement in the CoFoE: Between European political entrepreneurs and depoliticised domestic politics 9. The German Bundestag in the CoFoE: Comfortable guest with strong ownership 10. Translating reluctance into activism: The Dutch parliament in the Conference on the Future of Europe 11. The Conference on the Future of Europe as an opportunity structure: An analysis of activities in the 27 German-speaking regional parliaments. Conclusion