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Introduction. parliaments in the composite European constitution / Cristina Fasone and Nicola Lupo -- The place of national parliaments within the European constitutional order / Leonard Besselink -- Interjudicial dialogue and interparliamentary dialogue in the constitution of the Union / Giuseppe Martinico -- The convention method / Cesare Pinelli -- Interparliamentary cooperation and the simplified revision procedures / Katarzyna Granat -- Bicameralism and interparliamentary cooperation / Antonia Baraggia -- Standing committees in interparliamentary cooperation in the post-Lisbon era : towards the end of the European affairs committees' predominance? / Diane Fromage -- Towards a more politicised interparliamentary cooperation? : the European Parliament's political groups and the European parliamentary week / Nathalie Brack and Thibaud Deruelle -- The role of parliamentary administrations in interparliamentary cooperation / Andreja Pegan andAnna-Lena Högenauer -- The instrumental value of horizontal parliamentary cooperation : subsidiarity review and the political dialogue / Marco Goldoni -- Parliamentary involvement in the economic and monetary union after the Euro crisis / Davor Jančić -- COSAC : birth, evolution, failures and perspectives / Adam Cygan -- The interparliamentary conference on common foreign and security policy : a quest for democratic accountability in EU security governance / Jan Wouters and Kolja Raube -- The interparliamentary conference on stability, economic coordination and governance in the European Union (the "article 13 conference") / Ian Cooper -- Ruling the (dis-)order of interparliamentary cooperation? : the EU speakers' conference / Cristina Fasone -- The role of COSAC in the Europeanisation of national parliaments and in the evolution of interparliamentary cooperation / Davide A Capuano -- The role of COSAC in the changing environment of national parliaments in the EU : an identity crisis? / Bruno A Dias Pinheiro -- The role of the COSAC secretariat within the evolving landscape of interparliamentary cooperation : challenges for the future / Christiana Fryda -- Interparliamentary cooperation in the context of COSAC : a view from the European Parliament / Francisco Gcentmez Martos -- The role of COSAC in EU interparliamentary cooperation: an (endless) quest for an identity / Antonio Esposito -- Reshaping COSAC as a dynamic venue for interparliamentary exchange / Mendeltje van Keulen -- Conclusion : interparliamentary cooperation in the framework of a Euro-national parliamentary system / Cristina Fasone and Nicola Lupo

While the contacts taking place within the officially established interparliamentary conferences (COSAC, article 13 Conference and CFSP Conference) have been subject to relatively intense discussions among academics, the question of the interparliamentary cooperation outside of these Conferences has been far less studied. Indeed, one can observe initiatives from both National parliaments at a horizontal level and initiatives from the European Parliament and National parliaments in a vertical dimension. For instance, National parliaments, on the one hand, have taken the initiative to organize thematic informal interparliamentary meetings (among others the Tweede Kamer in Brussels in January 2015 on the role of National parliaments in the EU or the French National Assembly on the European Public Prosecutor's Office in September 2014) or they have formed geographical groups as for example the Visegrad group. On the other hand, top-down and bottom-up relationships have been established between the EP and National Parliaments outside of the Conferences for interparliamentary cooperation. The EP regularly invites National MPs to participate in meetings in Brussels whereas MEPs are invited to come to the Parliament of their country of origins. The presented article intends to shed light on these less visible dynamics as well as on their recent evolution.

El artículo analiza la cooperación interparlamentaria como un mecanismo importante en el proceso de globalización, no solo porque garantiza la armonización jurídica, sino porque constituye un medio de intercambio de experiencias legislativas conducentes al mejoramiento de la legislación nacional y por ende a la revalorización del Legislativo como institución política. Para tal efecto en este artículo se analiza, por una parte, la dimensión parlamentaria de la integración regional sumada a la constitución de organizaciones y foros parlamentarios regionales como instrumentos de cooperación interparlamentaria; y por otra, se analiza la cooperación entre los Parlamentos regionales, su relación con los Parlamentos nacionales y acuerdos bilaterales, poniendo énfasis en el apoyo al fortalecimiento y mejoramiento de la labor legislativa de los Parlamentos nacionales de cada uno de los casos estudiados. ; This paper analyzes the inter-parliamentary cooperation as an important mechanism in the process of globalization, not only because it guarantees the legal harmonization of the efforts of the National Parliaments, but because, it is a way to exchange legislative experiences leading the improvement of national legislation, and thus, the re-legitimation of the Latin American National Parliament as a political institution. In order to study this process, this article analyzes, in one hand, the parliamentary dimension of regional integration, the constitution of organizations and regional forums as instruments of cooperation. In the other hand, I analyzed the cooperation among regional Parliaments, its relationship with National Parliaments and bilateral agreements. I emphasized the support that those Regional Parliaments gives to the improvement of the legislative work of the National Parliaments.

Interparliamentary conferences and other permanent forums for interparliamentary cooperation are blossoming in the European Union. Following more or less lengthy negotiations between national and European parliamentarians, two new conferences and a new joint parliamentary scrutiny group for Europol have been created since 2012. Against this background, this article examines to what extent the Joint parliament scrutiny group is comparable to the previously existing interparliamentary conferences. Beyond that, it asks the question as to whether any better-defined guidelines or procedures could be adopted to rationalise the process of creation of new forums for interparliamentary cooperation. It makes some concrete proposals in that direction.