nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170529-154325 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 151201s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170529-154325 doi eng 342 23 Duff, Andrew Author aut Why the British demands on national parliaments must be resisted Duff, Andrew Verfassungsblog 2015-12-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Six years ago today, the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, introducing an early warning system for national parliaments concerned with the principle of subsidiarity. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has called for more incisive rights of national parliaments to block EU legislation. The UK government, which normally preens itself on its flexibility and pragmatism, is trying to impose a one-size-fits-all approach on national parliaments, ignoring their very different mandates, powers, practices, timetables and levels of political interest and staff support. The fact is that waving subsidiarity cards is the least important EU function of national parliaments. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 federalism Legislation Initiative National Parliaments Subsidiarity Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/11980/ raw object