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The implementation of Article 31 of the Treaty on European Union and the use of Qualified Majority Voting
This study has been commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee. It analyses the possibilities and challenges regarding unanimity and qualified majority voting as well as the use of passerelle clauses in EU decision-making, with a special focus on the use of qualified majority voting in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Political Parties and Political Foundations at European Level. Challenges and Opportunities
This Report is a follow-up study on “How to create a transnational party system” (2010); it illustrates recent challenges and opportunities at EU level concerning the emergence of: i) transnational parties and a transnational party system; ii) constraints and opportunities for representative democracy. The main areas addressed in the report are: (a) voting coherence of the EP Party Groups after the Euro-crisis; (b) regulation of political parties at European level (PPELs); (c) role of political foundations ...
Checking the Attendance of Members in the National Parliaments of the Member States
This study seeks to give a general overview of the methods used in the national parliaments to check the attendance of members at plenary sittings and at committee meetings and any specific consequences, financial or other, which could derive from non-justified absences by members.