The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of
Europe : Between Ownership and Diverging Political Visions

C 2025

The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe : Between Ownership and Diverging Political Visions

KOTÝNEK KROTKÝ, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe : Between Ownership and Diverging Political Visions

Autoři

KOTÝNEK KROTKÝ, Jan

Vydání

London, The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe : Synergies and Legitimacy Clashes, od s. 58-77, 20 s. Routledge Advances in European Politics, 2025

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

kniha - open access;, kapitola - open access;

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-032-74764-4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470793-5

Změněno: 27. 9. 2024 15:08, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) represented an ‘opportunity structure’ for the European Parliament (EP) to advance its own power objectives. The aim of this chapter is to disaggregate this institutional position and examine the EP’s involvement in the CoFoE from the perspective of its constituent parts – European political groups. Through qualitative content analysis of various documents and an analysis of voting behaviour, this study challenges the EP’s unitary position on CoFoE. The chapter contends that the unitary position was only surface-deep, with the Conference being subject to contestation by right-wing Eurosceptic political groups. While integrationist groups (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Renew Europe (Renew), European People’s Party (EPP), Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens–EFA)) and partly the Left spearheaded by Guy Verhofstadt, utilised the CoFoE to gain more powers for the EP and launch a treaty change procedure, right-wing Eurosceptic groups (European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID)) were (self)-excluded from this process. They also viewed the Conference as an ‘opportunity structure’ but to promote their ‘Eurorealist’ vision of a confederal Europe in which national parliaments play a crucial role. The chapter also delves into the contestation within the political groups revealing the relative incoherence of stances within the integrationist groups, and the Left.

Citovat

KOTÝNEK KROTKÝ, Jan. The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe : Between Ownership and Diverging Political Visions. Online. In Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Lucy Kinski. The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe : Synergies and Legitimacy Clashes. London: Routledge, 2025, s. 58-77. Routledge Advances in European Politics. ISBN 978-1-032-74764-4. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470793-5.

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KOTÝNEK KROTKÝ, Jan. The European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe : Between Ownership and Diverging Political Visions. Online. In Karolina Boro\'nska-Hryniewiecka, Lucy Kinski. \textit{The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe : Synergies and Legitimacy Clashes}. London: Routledge, 2025, s.~58-77. Routledge Advances in European Politics. ISBN~978-1-032-74764-4. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470793-5.

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