ARBEIT NATIONAL: increasing scholarly interest in national

Since the mid-1990s, there is increasing academic debate on the scrutiny role of national parliaments over their governments in EU affairs. Most contributions focus on the description of control and the explanation of variance in control between the various member states of the European Union (e.g. Bergman 1997, 2000; Maurer und Wessels 2001; Raunio 2005). In describing the control function of national parliaments in EU affairs the authors concentrate on institutional adjustments and formal organizational adaptations to European integration, which have led to a pooling of research on access to information and information processing, the formation and functioning of parliamentary European Affairs Committees (EAC's) and generally constitutional and legal forms of