Jean Monnet Chair Roundtable Debate: Scrutiny or benign meglect? How the region's national parliaments address EU affairs?

On June 22, 2011 the CEU’s Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy and Governance, Uwe Puetter convened the first annual round table debate of the series “European Union politics – views from Central Europe”. The event was organised in collaboration with the Center for European Union Research and the Hungarian Europe Society and under the participation of a group of CEU PhD students working in the field of EU affairs.

The event brought together a small group of Members of Parliament as well as senior civil servants from parliamentary administrations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland to debate how the region’s national parliaments address EU affairs after the Lisbon Treaty.

We invite you to visit the related webpage and watch the interventions of Luděk Sefzig, the Chairman of the Czech Senate Committee on EU Affairs, and of Ivan Štefanec, the Chairman of the Slovak Parliament Committee on European Affairs.

You can also read the comments of Beata Grzebielauch, Olga Loblova and Philipp Thaler. The CEU PhD researchers tell us how they assess the consequences of the Lisbon Treaty for the role national parliaments and what they took home from the round table debate.