Loose Coordination or Ideological Contestation?:Transnational Party Activities of German Political Parties on the EU Military Operation EUNAVFOR Med

This article examines cross-national coordination on foreign and security policy among political parties of the same family. Drawing on resource dependence theory, it presents a case study of German political parties and their transnational activities on the controversial EU military operation to combat human trafficking in the Mediterranean Sea, EU Naval Force Mediterranean. The article finds evidence for transnational information exchange and coordination among the opposition parties, radical left and the greens, but less so among the government party, social democrats. The degree of transnational party activities can be understood by not only the extent to which parties share a common view in the first place but also the different resource needs of the government and opposition parties

Loose Coordination or Ideological Contestation?: Transnational Party Activities of German Political Parties on the EU Military Operation EUNAVFOR Med

This article examines cross-national coordination on foreign and security policy among political parties of the same family. Drawing on resource dependence theory, it presents a case study of German political parties and their transnational activities on the controversial EU military operation to combat human trafficking in the Mediterranean Sea, EU Naval Force Mediterranean. The article finds evidence for transnational information exchange and coordination among the opposition parties, radical left and the greens, but less so among the government party, social democrats. The degree of transnational party activities can be understood by not only the extent to which parties share a common view in the first place but also the different resource needs of the government and opposition parties

One year of blogging about teaching and learning in PBL

It has been a year since we started our Teaching & Learning Blog! And what better way to celebrate than with a blog of our own about the importance of sharing teaching experiences and best practices

National parliaments in the European Union: Conceptual choices in the European Union\u2019s constitutional debate

There has been much debate about the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the role of national parliaments in the European Union (EU) integration process. The introduction of the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM) provided the first opportunity for national parliaments to become actively involved in the EU decision-making process. However, while much attention since then has \u2014 quite rightly \u2014 focused on the application of this process, on the effectiveness of the mechanism for subsidiarity control and on the impact that this has had both at the EU level and on domestic institutions, it is also important to study the history of this reform in order to understand precisely how and why this type of involvement was chosen. The EWM was neither the only possible nor the \u2018natural\u2019 outcome of a reform seeking to involve national parliaments more directly. Indeed, at earlier stages of the EU\u2019s constitutional debate there had been calls for a second chamber for the European Parliament (EP) \u2014 or indeed a \u2018third chamber\u2019,1 the creation of a new institution at the EU level composed of representatives from national parliaments