Conclusion

Abstract

The preceding monographs on the relations between national parliaments and the European Parliament confirm the existence of marked differences in the degree of interinstitutional harmony — or disharmony — prevailing as between one country and another. Generally speaking, the greatest degree of harmony is achieved in Belgium, where the procedures for collaboration achieve a high degree of interpenetration between the two kinds of policy-making processes. In the UK, in contrast, even though the House of Commons has begun to give a reluctant recognition, and a right of marginal involvement in its ‘sovereign’ process of policy-making, to the duly elected representatives of the British people in the European Parliament, we can still find the highest degree of disharmony between the two categories of national representatives.¹