%0 Journal Article %1 cooper_yellow_2015 %A Cooper, Ian %D 2015 %J Journal of European Public Policy %K Early European II Mechanism, Monti Union, Warning card national parliaments, regulation, subsidiarity, yellow %N 10 %P 1406--1425 %R 10.1080/13501763.2015.1022569 %T A yellow card for the striker: national parliaments and the defeat of EU legislation on the right to strike %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1022569 %V 22 %X In May 2012 national parliaments of the European Union (EU) issued their first yellow card under the Early Warning Mechanism of the Treaty of Lisbon. A sufficient number of them raised objections to a legislative proposal – the Monti II Regulation regarding the right to strike – that the Commission was required to review the proposal, which it subsequently withdrew. This outcome was, demonstrably, not a coincidence but the product of extensive interparliamentary co-ordination, enabled by the initiative of one determined parliament (Denmark's Folketing), the opportunity provided by a well-timed interparliamentary meeting, and the network of national parliament representatives in Brussels. A dynamic political process was set in motion in which a number of parliaments joined the effort to obtain a yellow card by, in effect, ‘voting against' Monti II before the eight-week deadline. The episode shows that, despite claims to the contrary, national parliaments have the capacity and willingness to use their new powers to exercise a collective influence in EU affairs.

@article{cooper_yellow_2015, abstract = {In May 2012 national parliaments of the European Union (EU) issued their first yellow card under the Early Warning Mechanism of the Treaty of Lisbon. A sufficient number of them raised objections to a legislative proposal – the Monti II Regulation regarding the right to strike – that the Commission was required to review the proposal, which it subsequently withdrew. This outcome was, demonstrably, not a coincidence but the product of extensive interparliamentary co-ordination, enabled by the initiative of one determined parliament (Denmark's Folketing), the opportunity provided by a well-timed interparliamentary meeting, and the network of national parliament representatives in Brussels. A dynamic political process was set in motion in which a number of parliaments joined the effort to obtain a yellow card by, in effect, ‘voting against' Monti II before the eight-week deadline. The episode shows that, despite claims to the contrary, national parliaments have the capacity and willingness to use their new powers to exercise a collective influence in EU affairs.}, added-at = {2017-06-14T12:13:13.000+0200}, author = {Cooper, Ian}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20a630eea21fe2bddd5c3034782529ae8/mjvw}, doi = {10.1080/13501763.2015.1022569}, file = {Snapshot:/home/matthijs/.zotero/zotero/4zaasxx8.default/zotero/storage/8PCE698E/13501763.2015.html:text/html}, interhash = {8753d8c720f7465d9bc54c365f5afc77}, intrahash = {0a630eea21fe2bddd5c3034782529ae8}, issn = {1350-1763}, journal = {Journal of European Public Policy}, keywords = {Early European II Mechanism, Monti Union, Warning card national parliaments, regulation, subsidiarity, yellow}, month = nov, number = 10, pages = {1406--1425}, shorttitle = {A yellow card for the striker}, timestamp = {2017-06-14T12:20:58.000+0200}, title = {A yellow card for the striker: national parliaments and the defeat of {EU} legislation on the right to strike}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1022569}, urldate = {2016-11-09}, volume = 22, year = 2015 }