nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170912-152709 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170912s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170912-152709 doi eng 342 23 Duff, Andrew Author aut Is the European Parliament Missing its Constitutional Moment? Duff, Andrew Verfassungsblog 2017-09-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Over the years, step by step, the European Parliament has won a share of real constitutional power. At times, Parliament has had a decisive influence on the constitutive development of the European Union. At other times, MEPs have found it just as difficult as the European Council has done to make constitutional sense of a Union which is an uneasy compromise between federal and confederal elements. If EU governance is congenitally weak it may be because its institutions are unable to manage the dichotomy between supranational and intergovernmental. Today, circumstances have thrown the European Parliament a golden opportunity to take a major step in the federal direction – but it looks as though MEPs are going to retreat again. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Electoral Law European Parliament Transnational Lists Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/is-the-european-parliament-missing-its-constitutional-moment/ raw object