From an amplifier to a silencer: the Slovak EU presidency and energy policy

M Mišík - Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Council Presidency is widely regarded as one of the most challenging responsibilities for EU
countries, particularly for newcomers. Countries that joined the Union during the eastern …

The European Parliament's youth policy, 1952-1979: An attempt to create a collective memory of an integrated Europe

M Roos - Politique européenne, 2021 - cairn.info
From the European Parliament's (EP) beginnings in the early 1950s, its members (MEPs)
pursued the creation of a Community youth policy. Through a variety of measures directed at …

National parliaments and the European Union: capturing the distributive consequences of democratic intergovernmentalism

S Brown - European Politics and Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
European Parliament elections are frequently held to be insufficient for conferring
democratic legitimacy on the EU's policy process. This has led a growing number of actors to …

Indispensable, safe and sustainable? How the European parliament debated nuclear energy megaprojects in the 1970s energy transition

JH Meyer - Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Present-day energy systems are shaped by past decisions, which were informed by
contemporary considerations about different energy sources and visions of the future …

A Parliament for the People?–The European Parliament's Activism in the Area of Social Policy From the Early 1970s to the Single European Act

R Mechthild - JEIH Journal of European Integration History, 2021 - nomos-elibrary.de
The formal powers of the European Parliament (EP) prior to the 1986 Single European Act
(SEA) were marginal. However, this limited formal role did not correspond to the perception …

Studying the EU and its Pioneers

S Guerra - Politique europeenne, 2022 - cairn.info
How we study and see the European Union (EU) affects how we engage with it. Recent
works on biographies of relevant women for the European integration process and on …

The Institutional Evolution of the European Parliament Prior to 1979

M Roos, M Roos - The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy …, 2021 - Springer
Much of the existing literature on the early years of the European Parliament assumes that
its powers corresponded to what the Treaties provided. While this may be true for the very …

The European Parliament: Moving to the Centre of Historical Interest in the European Union

D DINAN - JEIH Journal of European Integration History, 2021 - nomos-elibrary.de
Rarely is the history of a political institution divided so starkly into a 'before'and an
'after'period as is the history of the European Parliament (EP). The dividing line is the advent …

Why have there been no Founding Mothers of Europe?

AK Cianciara - Sprawy Międzynarodowe, 2022 - ceeol.com
Women seem strangely absent in the process of European integration, or rather, in the
dominant narratives that shape our understanding of how a united Europe was created. The …