(AGENPARL) – BRUXELLES ven 28 aprile 2023 The European Parliament (EP) has traditionally pushed for the deepening of the European Union (EU) and its democratic reform. First established as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951-1952, a large majority of its delegated Members enthusiastically supported the organisation’s evolution in a federal direction, including a government dependent on parliamentary support and a parliament with fully fledged legislative and budgetary powers. More recently, the EP was also behind the creation of the Conference on the Future of Europe, which concluded its work in May 2022. Involving randomly chosen individual citizens from all Member States, it produced a list of desirable practical measures, some of which are in the course of implementation, and 49 more far-reaching proposals, including the introduction of transnational lists for EP elections, for example. Debate about these proposals appears to have stalled, however, and it is unclear if or when, or which of, these proposals will be implemented. Against this background, this briefing explores in historical perspective how the EP has pushed for democratic reform of the EU in the past. Focussing on three major constitutional moments – the 1953 European Political Community draft treaty, the 1984 Draft Treaty on European Union, and the 2004 Constitutional Treaty – it demonstrates how even ostensibly failed reform initiatives have repeatedly created long-term impact: by changing the way the EP has worked internally, and cooperated with actors such as political parties and other EU institutions; by developing narrative strategies for reforming the EU; and by creating institutional templates that were later adopted for subsequent treaty reforms. This briefing follows up a roundtable event organised by EPRS on 8 March 2023, which included contributions by Wolfram Kaiser, Head of the European Parliament History Service and Professor at the University of Portsmouth, Sandro Guerrieri, Professor at La Sapienza University, Rome, and Ariadna Ripoll Servent, Professor at the University of Salzburg.
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