Promoting Unity, Preserving Diversity: Member-State Institutions and European Integration

As the European Union continues to evolve and as European integration proceeds, it has become increasingly difficult to meet two goals fundamental to the EU: promoting European unity while preserving member state diversity. To highlight this tension, Promoting Unity, Preserving Diversity? examines the ways in which six of the member state parliaments are connected, via particular legislative bodies called European Affairs Committees (EACs), to the EU legislative process.

Andrea M. Gates is a lecturer on government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.