Parliamentary dimension of the Polish presidency
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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The process of European integration has contributed to a significant concentration
of member states’ political power in the hands of a bureaucratic-executive elite. This
has been a result of European Union institutions discriminating in favor of national administrations rather than respective parliamentary institutions. Thereby, a European
pattern of supremacy of the executive elite has been established, based on a mecha-
nism of strict cooperation, and a system of institutional links between European and
national bureaucracies. Unfortunately, national parliaments and the European Parlia-
ment were significantly late in responding to this process. This resulted in a lack of efficient methods to monitor political decision-makers and officials as regards their
activity in the European forum. Not only has the integration system undermined the
general powers of nation-states, but it has created a powerful bureaucracy whose com-
petences have significantly increased on account of its international connections.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2013, nr 3, s. 7-30.
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1731-7517