Member of Parliament

big enough to sign a trade agreement with China without EU approval, then so is the 5th largest economy in the world, so is 1 of 5 members of the UN security council, and so is the home to 2 billion worldwide English speakers today. According to EU regulations, the 2500 square miles of territorial fishing waters we own must now be shared with each of the other 27 member states. Now, other countries such as Spain and Belgium have established fishing enterprises in our waters exploiting our…

changes in Parliament. Parliament was not formed overnight. It took hundreds of years of trial and error before Great Britain established the parliament they have today. Many different events played their part in forming the country and shaping parliament. None had as much effect as the events of the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century, or the Victorian age, was a time where change and parliament reform happened. Many acts and legislation were either passed or rejected through…

vices is to represent the EU parliament to both the outside world and other EU institutions. Parliament holds plenary sessions each year, which bring aboard the 20 parliamentary committees that specialize on specific domains of EU activity. At these plenary meetings, issues of concern as tabled by each committee are discussed or debated by the various political groups formed by EU members of parliament. The Role of the EU Parliament The first role of the EU parliament is to legislate; in…

accountability results in the loss member-state soverignty (Coughlan 2004). A democratic deficit refers the involvement of citizens in decision-making, and it is a foundational part of a legitimate government (Follesdal and Hix 2006). As discussed earlier, EU law is precedent over nation law. An added issue on top of my last point is that those responsible for creating and imposing EU law are the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. However, none of these members are directly…

national strategies responsibilities to achieve a better representation of their citizens, and at the same time, keep guarantying a European sphere coordination. The European Union is a sum of its institutions: the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Council. In this institutional structure, there is hardly anything that can suggest the appearance of a single European State since, the authority remains in the governments and national…

constitution are in fact written down, much of it in the laws passed in parliament, otherwise known as statute law. There are many principles involved in the British constitution however one of the main and perhaps the most important of the principles surrounding it is parliamentary sovereignty which I will be discussing in this document. First of what is parliamentary sovereignty? The sovereignty of parliament – parliament and only parliament get to make laws and no one else. As dicey stated…

of transparency and accountability, decision making that does not involve everyone and the usual issue of blocking citizens from participation in the policy making. In relation to the European Union , David Marquand (1979) argue that the European Parliament had the issue of democratic deficit as the citizens of Europe did not directly elect it, further more in relation to the European Union this deficit is seen as the lack of presentation to the ordinary citizen and lack of accountability…

In this process of legislation do we see the presence of both concept of supranationalism and intergovernmentalism. For more examples of the intergorvernmentalsim, it can be seen in the European Union’s treaties names after the different members states. Focusing on its origins, the manifestations of the European Union as an organization that promotes more than economic trade, it also plays a role in culture, security, foreign, competition in agriculture and others, and more recently…

the Scottish parliament. Essentially this puts forward the view that Scotland is best placed to make decisions for Scotland, therefore decisions should be taken closer to home (Leach, Coxall and Robins, 2011). During the referendum…

Another function for the parliament is to make approval on the EU in alliance with the Council . For the European Council, despite the fact that it is not the main role without any new power, the Lisbon Treaty still recognizes it as an EU institution. After the Treaty was enforced…