talijanski

Il Parlamento croato in fase di transizione: da un passato autoritario ad un futuro europeo

My intention is rather limited to an attempt to show that regardless of democratic transition facilitated by adoption of the first-ever-Croatia's democratic constitution on the eve of 1991, some of Croatian parliamentarian practices still carry the baggage of authoritarian past, and that the said baggage is loaded not primarily in the Constititutional framework, as developed after 1990, but in Croatian legal and political culture, understood as the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning. Within this limited objective I will focus on two parliamentary practices that have cristallized from the 1990 onwards, namely, the practice of so-called authentic interpretation, and practice of stringent control of governmental action, especially in external relations domain. Both practices, I submitt, can be explained by a number of factors, such as, insufficient legislative framework, post-communist inertia and selective perception of key political actors, or specific political landscape. As such practices are significantly impairing ability of Croatia to integrate into decision-making structures of the European Union, they will, arguably, have to be changed before accession.

Unione Europea; parlamento; post-communismo

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