At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe

1. A momentum of double politicisation1.1 A parliamentary alternative for the European integration1.2 The Ad Hoc Assembly1.3 Politicisation as a perspective on Europeanisation1.4. The supranational politicisation1.5 The parliamentary politicisation 1.6 Research agenda and practices of analysis1.7 Plan of the book and acknowledgements2. Parliament in post-war European projects2.1 Post-war pro-European projects2.2 The Hague Congress2.2.1 The Political Report and the Political Resolution2.2.2 European Deliberative Assembly2.3 European Parliamentary Union 2.4 A professorial Draft for the European Constitution3. The Council of Europe3.1 The concept of Europe in the Treaty of London3.2. The Consultative Assembly 3.3. A federalist critique: André Philip3.4 Committee plans for supranationalism4. European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)4.1 From the Schuman Declaration to the ECSC4.2 The Paris Treaty 4.2.1 The High Authority4.2.2 The Common Assembly4.2.3 The Council of Ministers4.3 The Common Assembly plenum in September 19524.3.1 Opening declarations4.3.2 Rules of Procedure4.3.3 Parliamentary powers of the Common Assembly5. Setting up the Ad Hoc Assembly5.1. The political impulse5.2 Remarks on studies on the Ad Hoc Assembly5.3 The Ad Hoc Assembly debate in the Common Assembly5.4 Constitution-writing by parliamentarians5.5 The members of the Ad Hoc Assembly5.6 Organisation of the Ad Hoc Assembly5.7 The Ad Hoc Assembly as a parliamentary institution6. The politics of naming6.1 Naming rhetoric6.2 Naming disputes in the Ad Hoc Assembly6.2.1 European Political Community6.2.2 Self-naming of the Assembly6.2.3 European Parliament6.3 A naming polity7. A supranational polity7.1. A colourful conceptual history7.2 Supranationalism in early European integration7.3 Supranationalism in the Ad Hoc Assembly7.3.1Against nationalism7.3.2 Supranationalism vs. intergovernmentalism7.3.3 The delegation paradigm7.3.4 The parliamentary condition 7.3.5 Freedom from dependence7.4 Supranational

Kari Palonen is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.