The European Parliament's Role in Closer EU Integration
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Approaches to European Integration -- Constituent Federalists -- Gradualist Federalists -- Neofunctionalists -- Interdependence Theories -- Intergovernmentalists -- A Preliminary Synthesis? -- 2 What to Expect of the European Parliament? -- Academic Views Prior to Direct Elections -- Party Attitudes Prior to the First Direct Elections -- Hypothesis for Testing -- A Few Words about the Elections -- 3 A New Political Network -- The Nature and Likely Commitment of the New MEPs -- MEPs and National Political Parties -- Transnational Party Federations -- MEPs and National Parliaments -- MEPs and their Constituencies -- Interest Groups -- Parliament and the Commission -- International Contacts -- The Information Market -- MEPs and the Wider Public -- Own Infrastructure -- Assessment -- 4 Exploiting its Existing Powers -- The Parliament's Budgetary Powers -- The Parliament's Legislative Powers -- The Parliament's Powers of Scrutiny and Control -- 5 Reform within the Treaties -- 6 Parliament Turns to Treaty Revision -- The Crocodile Initiative -- The Work of the Committee on Institutional Affairs -- The Evolution of Party Attitudes -- 7 The Draft Treaty -- Structure and Contents of the Draft Treaty -- Main Characteristics of the Draft Treaty -- Entry into Force of the Draft Treaty -- 8 From the Draft Treaty to the 1985 Intergovernmental Conference -- The 1984 European Elections and National Political Parties -- Initial Reactions of Governments -- The Dooge Committee -- The Reaction of National Parliaments -- The EP Delegations to National Capitals -- Interest Groups and NGOs -- The Run-up to Milan -- 9 The Intergovernmental Conference of 1985 -- Procedures and Pressures -- External Influences on the IGC -- The Substance of the Negotiations.
