Abstract
The aim of the book is to assess the impacts of the European integration on the position of the national parliaments in the Member States' constitutional systems and to evaluate the specific instruments that are at the national parliaments' disposal in European affairs. This is achieved by the combination of four perspectives: historical (history of European integration and its impacts), theoretical (various interpretations of the EU as a whole and of its effects on the role of the national parliaments), positivistic (description, interpretation and analysis of the legal regulation of the national parliaments in European affairs) and empirical (evaluation of the practical use of this legal regulation).
A special attention is paid to the topical questions of the deepening of the economic and monetary union and to the Parliament of the Czech Republic.