Slow Adapters or Active Players?Belgian Regional Parliamentarians and European Affairs after Lisbon

Recently, the Treaty of Lisbon opened the door for the inclusion of subnational parliaments in the EU decision-making processes. Yet, authors have so far mainly focused on the involvement of national parliaments to the European Union whereas only a few studies dedicated attention to the adaptation of subnational parliaments to European integration. This paper fills that gap by analysing, in a comparative perspective, the involvement of Belgian regional parliamentarians (RMPs) in EU affairs. Following the ‘in foro interno, in foro externo’ principle, Belgian regions are now responsible to condu... Mehr ...