Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka

University of Wroclaw | WROC · Instytut Politologii

The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly (FGPA) set up in March 2019 is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the parliaments of the two most powerful member states of the European Union (EU). While this bi-parliamentary assembly has received some attention by political think tanks, we know very little about its potential transformat...

The article introduces the special issue ‘Parliaments in times of crises: democratic accountability in the EU economic governance from the euro to the COVID crisis’ explaining how it seeks to make a novel contribution in the field of parliamentary studies. It first explains the trajectory of the crisis-driven institutional changes affecting parliam...

p>This article aims to verify whether, and to what extent, the Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance (IPC SECG) has become an accountability enhancing arena through which domestic legislatures can better scrutinize the process of the European Semester. While there is a broad scholarship on the difficult i...

Abstract This paper offers the first ever comparative analysis of the involvement of V4 parliaments in the sphere of EU affairs. Its underlying research objective is to determine what conditions V4’s parliamentary participation in various EU-oriented activities such as domestic scrutiny of the government's EU policy; the political dialogue with the...

The majority of European Union (EU) studies tend to be critical of the Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity control, deeming it as ineffective in blocking unwanted EU legislation. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to identify and discuss several transformative effects of the EWS connected with the quality and democratic chara...

Have national parliaments become ‘multi-arena players’ in the field of EU affairs? Through the means of cross-country comparison of Poland and France this study probes how national parliaments juggle their activities between domestic and EU-level realms with regard to four EU-oriented arenas: ex-ante scrutiny of national governments, the Early Warn...

Poland faces with Brexit the loss of one of its most important political and economic partners in the European Union (EU). Poland has had a trade surplus in goods and services with the United Kingdom (UK), with the latter also being the top destination of Polish emigration and constituting one of the biggest net contributors to the EU budget of whi...

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), which allows one million citizens to prompt policy solutions, has become a beacon of hope for increasing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. This chapter dissects its potential effects for democratic legitimacy, arguing that any comprehensive evaluation of the mechanism should be in broader than...

National parliaments, as institutions that control EU-oriented activities of their governments and often transpose EU legislation into domestic orders, have a role to play in EU affairs. This chapter takes stock of the current roles of national parliaments in the EU and seeks to answer the question of whether they contribute effectively to enhancin...

This paper proposes a research design which allows for a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the European citizens' initiative (ECI)-the first EU transnational participatory tool. It provides an analytical framework based on a broader conceptualisation of the notion of "effectiveness" which goes beyond the sole legislative function of...

This article analyses the effects of the Lisbon Treaty provisions for regional parliaments in EU decentralised systems by looking at the early warning system (EWS) for subsidiarity control. It argues that the implications of this mechanism for parliamentary empowerment at the regional level should be assessed carefully and their links with politica...

The inclusion of subnational parliaments into the early warning system (EWS) for subsidiarity control generates transforming dynamics in parliamentary modus operandi in European Union (EU) decentralized states. Empirical findings reveal considerable variations in the pace and scope of subnational parliamentary activity in EU policy control challeng...

To date, the EP has rarely used its power to propose legislation, but rather relied on its prerogative to table amendments to draft legislative acts proposed by the European Commission. Yet, it might be heard from within the ranks of its administration that, in the light of a decreased number of legislative proposals from the Commission, the EP has...

This article explains the relationship between subsidiarity and legitimacy of policies designed at EU level. Through means of theoretically informed analysis this paper claims that if the principle of subsidiarity is respected and implemented throughout the policy process, EU policy-making can aspire to satisfy the condition of both input and outpu...

Regional and local authorities today face a twofold challenge of delivering locally responsive policies in accordance with EU development goals. For this reason they need to align their development strategies with European guidelines. This paper determines the drivers and hindering factors behind the effective involvement of local and regional auth...

Este artículo ofrece una aproximación conceptual de la gobernanza multi-nivel (GMN) en la Unión Europea y su aplicación como herramienta analítica en el estudio de la participación de los entes subestatales en el proceso de construcción europea. Con este fin, el artículo proporciona una serie de indicadores para «medir» la GMN y evalúa ciertos desa...

Este artículo analiza la naturaleza cambiante del regionalismo subnacional contemporáneo a través del ejemplo del País Vasco. Muestra de que maneras las estrategias regionales vascas han evolucionado desde un aspecto provincial y de confrontación a uno abierto, cooperativo e innovador, que se adapta a las nuevas formas de gobernanza europea. A part...