Citizens of the European Union – voters of the European Parliament – a supranational parliament
Stefan Marek Grochalski
Uniwersytet Opolski. Wydział Prawa i Administracjihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6420-3363
Abstract
Parliament – an institution of a democratic state – a member of the Union – is not only an authority but also, as in the case of the European Union, the only directly and universally elected representative body of the European Union. The article presents questions related to the essence of parliament and that of a supranational parliament which are vital while dealing with the subject matter. It proves that the growth of the European Parliament’s powers was the direct reason for departing from the system of delegating representatives to the Parliament for the benefit of direct elections. It presents direct and universal elections to the European Parliament in the context of presenting legal regulations applicable in this respect. It describes a new legal category – citizenship of the European Union – primarily in terms of active and passive suffrage to the European Parliament, as a political entitlement of a citizen of the European Union.
Keywords:
The European Parliament, Citizen Of The European Union, competences, direct universal suffrage, democracyReferences
Borkowski P.J., Rada Europejska. Instytucje prawodawczo-wykonawcze Wspólnot Europejskich, [w:] Unia Europejska, t. 1: Geneza – system – prawo, red. W. Góralski, Warszawa 2007.
Doliwa-Klepacki Z.M., Encyklopedia organizacji międzynarodowych, Warszawa 1997.
Dunkerley D., Hodgson L., Konopacki S., Spybey T., Thompson A., Changing Europe. Identities, nations and citizens, London–New York 2002.
Grochalski S.M., Instytucja obywatelstwa Unii Europejskiej w świetle pierwotnych źródeł prawa wspólnotowego – unijnego, [w:] Prawo i gospodarka Polski po Traktacie Lizbońskim, red. E. Kozerska, P. Malinowski, T. Scheffler, Opole 2011.
Grochalski S.M., Obywatelstwo Unii – nowa kategoria prawna, [w:] Proces integracji Polski z Unią Europejską, red. P. Dobrowolski, M. Stolarczyk, Katowice 2001.
Grzeszczak R., Parlamenty państw członkowskich w Unii Europejskiej, Wrocław 2004.
Hansen P., European citizenship, or where neoliberalism meets ethno-culturalism. Analysing the European Union’s citizenship discourse, “European Societies” 2000, 2(2).
Kaczmarek J., Rada Europy, Warszawa 2002.
Integracja europejska, red. A. Marszałek, Łódź 2000.
Konopacki S., Dylematy obywatelstwa europejskiego, „Studia Europejskie” 2003, nr 4.
Menkes J., Wasilkowski A., Organizacje międzynarodowe. Wprowadzenie do systemu, Warszawa 2004.
Mik C., Europejskie prawo wspólnotowe. Zagadnienia teorii i praktyki, t. 1, Warszawa 2000.
Mik C., Obywatelstwo europejskie w świetle prawa wspólnotowego i międzynarodowego, „Toruński Rocznik Praw Człowieka i Pokoju” 1993, nr 2.
O’Leary S., European Union citizenship. The opinions for reform, London 1996.
Podraza A., Unia Europejska, Lublin 1999.
Ronkowski P., Parlament Europejski, Warszawa 2009.
Wiaderny-Bidzińska K., Polityczna integracja Europy Zachodniej, Toruń–Warszawa 2000.
Wojtaszek-Mik E., Mik C., Traktaty europejskie, Kraków 2000.
http://oide.sejm.gov.pl/oide/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14502:parlamenteuropejski34&catid=14:bibliografie&Itemid=946 (3.01.2016).
Statistics
Downloads
License
Author’s economic rights to published works are held by Opole University (collective works) and individual Authors (individual parts of the collective work, ones that form a separate entity).
The journal Opole Studies in Administration and Law accepts for publication only works which have not been in circulation before.
On the basis of the Regulation (2016/679) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (referred to as General Data Protection Regulation or RODO) Opole University, based at 11a Plac Kopernika, 45-040 Opole, is the personal data controller for all the authors publishing their works in the Opole Studies in Administration and Law.
The articles published in Opole Studies in Administration and Law are available under a licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
For aricles till 2017 your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation – see:
Ustawa z dnia 4 lutego 1994 r. o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych
Read more about the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
View Legal Code:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Stefan Marek Grochalski, The specific legal-international regime of peace treaties , The Opole Studies in Administration and Law: Vol. 17 No. 4 (2019)
- Stefan Marek Grochalski, “Brexit” – consequences for UK citizens as ex-citizens of the European Union , The Opole Studies in Administration and Law: Vol. 14 No. 4 (1) (2016)
