The Contribution of COSAC to Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny in the EU: A Practitioner’s View

Abstract

COSAC has played an active role in fostering and developing interparliamentary he central question addressed here is to assess whether COSAC is currently structured to allow NPs to obtain more information and access to the policy and decision-making circuits at EU level and, therefore, if NPs are benefiting from COSAC or are they, on the contrary, lagging behind and lost amidst so many interparliamentary meetings?

Keywords

• COSAC
• interparliamentary cooperation
• interparliamentary conferences
• multipolarised system
• COSAC reform
• effectiveness in scrutiny of EU affairs
• COSAC Secretariat