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Paradoxes of parliamentarization in European security and defence: when politicization and integration undercut parliamentary capital

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Figure 1. Evolution of support for the annual report on the implementation of CSDP (2008–2017).

Source: own elaboration, from AFET reports and EU Vote Watch. The difference between the 2017 Committee and Plenary votes might be related to the low voting turnout in Committee (40 out of 73 MEPs).

Figure 1. Evolution of support for the annual report on the implementation of CSDP (2008–2017).Source: own elaboration, from AFET reports and EU Vote Watch. The difference between the 2017 Committee and Plenary votes might be related to the low voting turnout in Committee (40 out of 73 MEPs).

Figure 2. Evolution of committee votes on defence and non-defence reports in AFET (2004–2017).

Source: own elaboration, from EP documents’ database and archives. For the 6th and 7th parliamentary terms, data was triangulated with the AFET activity reports for each term. The total number of defence/non-defence reports per term is: 6/96 (6th term), 13/91 (7th term) and 10/109 (8th term).

Figure 2. Evolution of committee votes on defence and non-defence reports in AFET (2004–2017).Source: own elaboration, from EP documents’ database and archives. For the 6th and 7th parliamentary terms, data was triangulated with the AFET activity reports for each term. The total number of defence/non-defence reports per term is: 6/96 (6th term), 13/91 (7th term) and 10/109 (8th term).

Figure 3. Supporting analyses on security and defence (1999–2018).

Source: database of European Parliament Think Tank http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/search.html (last accessed: October 2018). *Data on the 8th parliamentary term includes expertise items until October 2018.

Figure 3. Supporting analyses on security and defence (1999–2018).Source: database of European Parliament Think Tank http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/search.html (last accessed: October 2018). *Data on the 8th parliamentary term includes expertise items until October 2018.