Report: workshop on Recalibrating executive-legislative relations in the EU

On 18-19 January 2018, a workshop on ‘Recalibrating executive-legislative relations in the EU’ was held at the UM Brussels Campus, thanks to the sponsoring of the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERIM), the Universiteitsfonds Limburg (SWOL) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University (FASoS).

Gathering about 40 participants, including a diverse mix of academics with mostly legal and political science backgrounds and practitioners, the workshop took stock of the role of parliaments since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009. Dubbed the ‘Treaty of Parliaments’ for its measures empowering both the European Parliament and national parliaments, the Lisbon Treaty raised expectations of reversing the so called ‘executive drift’ in European politics, in turn perceived as one of the main drivers of the enduring democratic deficit in the EU. The workshop participants enquired into whether these expectations have been met, and discussed proposals on whether and how should executive-legislative imbalances be further redressed.

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