Political Accountability from a Comparative and a European Perspective

There seems to be a growing tendency, as prominently shown by the fall of the Santer Commission in 1999 and expressed more recently in the Constitutional Treaty, to construe the relationship between the Commission and the European Parliament as a parliamentary system. In a parliamentary system the government gives account of its action to Parliament and, where appropriate, suffers the consequences, takes the blame, or puts matters right if errors have been made.Broeksteeg, Hansko is the author of 'Political Accountability from a Comparative and a European Perspective', published 2008 under ISBN 9789076871820 and ISBN 9076871825.