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Toni Haastrup (University of Kent) and Simon Bulmer (University of Sheffield) speak to Maxine David (University of Leiden) about the development and future of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS).
The recording of this video was supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The video reflects the views only of the speaker(s). The Commission and UACES cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

This blog post is a follow-up to the presentation “The Aspiration Towards Centrality in the European Research Area: The European Interest in Bringing the Southern Neighbourhood Into the Picture,” given on 11 September 2023, during the virtual panel 104 “The EU as an External Actor I” of the UACES 2023 Conference. The presentation highlighted some […]
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The Treaty of Lisbon opened the door for the inclusion of subnational parliaments in the EU decision-making processes. However, authors have so far mainly focused on the involvement of national parliaments and only rarely included both regional and national parliaments in one single analysis. Consequently, we know little or none about the variation and, more interestingly, the relationship between multiple parliaments from different levels of governance within a Member State. However, if one wants to study the role of parliaments from federal Member States in EU decision-making processes, it is crucial to examine the combined actions and relations among regional and federal parliaments regarding EU affairs. This paper therefore examines, in a comparative perspective, the politicisation of EU affairs within the Belgian House of Representatives, and the parliaments of Flanders and Wallonia (sample of the legislative period 2009-2014). This version presents the first descriptive findings of manually coded parliamentary debates. It looks at which parties and members of parliaments participate in EU-related debates, and at the policy field and type of EU dossier under scrutiny. In a next stage, we aim at explaining variation in EU politicisation within Belgium, and what this means for inter-parliamentary relations within Belgium.

The Treaty of Lisbon opened the door for the inclusion of subnational parliaments in the EU decision-making processes. However, authors have so far mainly focused on the involvement of national parliaments and only rarely included both regional and national parliaments in one single analysis. Consequently, we know little or none about the variation and, more interestingly, the relationship between multiple parliaments from different levels of governance within a Member State. However, if one wants to study the role of parliaments from federal Member States in EU decision-making processes, it is crucial to examine the combined actions and relations among regional and federal parliaments regarding EU affairs. This paper therefore examines, in a comparative perspective, the politicisation of EU affairs within the Belgian House of Representatives, and the parliaments of Flanders and Wallonia (sample of the legislative period 2009-2014). This version presents the first descriptive findings of manually coded parliamentary debates. It looks at which parties and members of parliaments participate in EU-related debates, and at the policy field and type of EU dossier under scrutiny. In a next stage, we aim at explaining variation in EU politicisation within Belgium, and what this means for inter-parliamentary relations within Belgium.