Resumen de The European Experience of parliamentary administrations in comparative perspective

Alfredo De Feo, Francis G. Jacobs

• This paper examines the various factors that make the European Parliament Administration so distinctive and also how it has responded to new challenges. The first part of this paper looks briefly at the EP's evolution. It then goes on to examine the main ways in which the European Parliament differs from national parliaments and the implications of these differences for the work of the EP Secretariat, some of them obvious and familiar and others less so. The second part of the paper looks, instead, at some of the specific features of the EP administration assessing how the Institution has responded to new challenges, including how the EP administration has attempted to respond to the Covid pandemic. There are then some conclusions, with some indications of areas requiring further research.