Substance and Subsidiarity: The economic dimension of conflict in the Early Warning System

M. Huysmans; Philippe van Gruisen

doi:10.1080/07036337.2020.1869956

Substance and Subsidiarity: The economic dimension of conflict in the Early Warning System

M. Huysmans
, Philippe van Gruisen

Leiden University

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Abstract

The Early Warning System (EWS) allows national Parliaments in the EU to issue Reasoned Opinions (ROs) against proposed new legislation. If one-third of them do, a yellow card is triggered. In theory, the goal of this system is for Parliaments to police the subsidiarity principle, and not to address substance. This article confirms quantitatively that the EWS is also about substance by studying the co-issuance of ROs by Parliaments. It finds that similar levels of economic development, rather than ideological or geographical proximity, are most strongly associated with the co-issuance of ROs by pairs of Parliaments. To explain the importance of the economic dimension across topics, we suggest that proposals with an impact along economic lines may be especially likely to trigger opposition in the form of ROs. Increasing co-issuance over the period 2010–2018 suggests that Parliaments are learning to coordinate transnationally, although no yellow cards have materialized since.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411-427
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of European Integration
Volume	44
Issue number	3
Early online date	30 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2020.1869956
Publication status	Published - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers, Thomas Malang, Katjana Gattermann and seminar participants and discussants at Utrecht School of Governance, EPSA 2019, and PEIO 2020 for their feedback on earlier versions. We also gratefully acknowledge a suggestion of Simon Hug that led to the start of this project, methodological discussions related to this project with Vincent Schippers, James Bisbee, Simon Hug and Claire Peacock, and research assistance by Pieter Devloo for interviews with IPEX correspondents. All shortcomings remain our own.

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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

European Union
Subsidiarity
Early Warning System
Dimensions of Conflict

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