Parliamentary control of EU affairs in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining the variation

This article addresses the puzzle of why the parliamentary control of Eureopean Union (EU) affairs varies across the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states despite the same timing of their EU accession. The article considers four potential explanatory factors: public Euroscepticism; party Euroscepticism; general power of the parliament; and the frequency of minority governments. A comparative analysis reveals that the analysed variation can be explained by the varying power of parliaments.