Czachór, Zbigniew2018-05-212018-05-212013Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2013, nr 3, s. 7-30.1731-7517http://hdl.handle.net/10593/23378The 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.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł