Democracy in the EU and the Role of the European Parliament. A study and a call

Preface, Gianni Bonvicini
Give European Citizens a Voice, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Seminar participants
List of Acronyms

1. Making Better Use of the European Parliament’s Powers, Franco Mosconi and Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
   1. The EP’s Evolution (1957-2000)
   2. More Powers with the Lisbon Treaty
   3. Towards a Better Use of Powers inside the Treaties
   4. Future Reform
       Bibliography

2. European Political Parties and Democracy in the EU, Brendan Donnelly and Mathias Jopp
   1. The Nature and Role of European Political Parties
   2. The Successive Strengthening of the European Political Parties through Primary and Secondary Law before the Lisbon Treaty
   3. Political Parties and the Lisbon and Constitutional Treaties
   4. The Central Role of European Political Parties
       Bibliography

3. The Role of European Electoral Programmes, Francisco Roa Bastos
   1. What is a Euromanifesto And Why Does it Matter?
   2. The Insufficient Definition of Euromanifestos
   3. National Parties and Euromanifestos during the 2004 European Electoral Campaign
   4. Parliamentary Coordination and Legislative Work as a Manner to Define Concrete Policy Programmes
   5. Towards More Effective Euromanifestos
       Bibliography
       Appendix

4. Should European Parties Propose a Candidate for European Commission President?, Gianni Bonvicini, Gian Luigi Tosato and Raffaello Matarazzo
   1. The Crisis of the Institutional Reform Process
   2. Reasons for the Crisis
   3. An Increase of ‘Political Responsibility’ for the President of the Commission
   4. The Aim of the Proposal
   5. The Centrality of the European Citizen
   6. Difficulties to Overcome
   7. The Need for a Greater Democratic Legitimation of the EU
       Bibliography