At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe (eBook)

Kari Palonen is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

1 A momentum of double politicisation
1.1 A parliamentary alternative for European integration
1.2 The Ad Hoc Assembly
1.3 Politicisation as a perspective on Europeanisation
1.4 Supranational politicisation
1.5 Parliamentary politicisation
1.6 Research agenda and practices of analysis
1.7 Plan of the book and acknowledgements

2 Parliament in post-war European projects
2.1 Post-war pro-European projects
2.2 The Hague Congress
2.2.1 The 'Political Report' and the 'Political Resolution'
2.2.2 'European Deliberative Assembly'
2.3 'European Parliamentary Union'
2.4 A professorial draft for the European Constitution

3 The Council of Europe
3.1 The Concept of Europe in the Treaty of London
3.2 The Consultative Assembly
3.3 A federalist critique: André Philip
3.4 Committee plans for supranationalism

4 European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
4.1 From the Schuman Declaration to the ECSC
4.2 The Paris Treaty
4.2.1 The High Authority
4.2.2 The Common Assembly
4.2.3 The Council of Ministers
4.3 The Common Assembly plenum in September 1952
4.3.1 Opening declarations
4.3.2 The Rules of procedure
4.3.3 Parliamentary powers of the Common Assembly

5 Setting up the Ad Hoc Assembly
5.1 The political impulse
5.2 Remarks on studies on the Ad Hoc Assembly
5.3 The Ad Hoc Assembly debate in the Common Assembly
5.4 Constitution-writing by parliamentarians
5.5 The members of the Ad Hoc Assembly
5.6 The organisation of the Ad Hoc Assembly
5.7 The Ad Hoc Assembly as a parliamentary institution

6 The Politics of Naming
6.1 Naming rhetoric
6.2 Naming disputes
6.2.1 European Political Community
6.2.2 Self-naming of the Ad Hoc Assembly
6.2.3 European Parliament
6.3 Naming the polity

7 A supranational polity
7.1 A colourful conceptual history
7.2 Supranationalism in early European integration
7.3 Supranationalism in the Ad Hoc Assembly
7.3.1 Against nationalism
7.3.2 Supranationalism vs. intergovernmentalism
7.3.3 The delegation paradigm
7.3.4 The parliamentary condition
7.3.5 Europeanisation as freedom from dependence
7.4 Supranational policies
7.4.1 Economic policies
7.4.2 Foreign policy
7.4.3 Full and associated members
7.5 Supranational politicisation

8 The European Parliament
8.1 Histories of parliamentarisation
8.2 The Parliament of the Community
8.2.1 The organisation of Parliament
8.2.2 The bicameral system
8.2.3 Legislation and initiative
8.3 The Peoples' Chamber
8.3.1 Direct elections
8.3.2 Proportional or majority representation
8.3.3 The distribution of seats
8.4 The Senate
8.4.1 A parliamentary chamber
8.4.2 Parity or balancing of seats
8.4.3 Membership and term length
8.5 Towards a supranational parliament

9 The European government
9.1 Council of National Ministers
9.2 The European Executive Council
9.2.1 Composition, powers, activity
9.2.2 Election and parliamentary responsibility
9.3 A draft for a European parliamentary government

10 Towards a supranational and parliamentary Europe
10.1 Parliamentary virtues of the Ad Hoc Assembly
10.2 Proposals for empowering the Parliament
10.2.1 The Vedel Report
10.2.2 The Spinelli Project
10.3 The legacy of the Ad Hoc Assembly
References
Index of actors
Index of concepts