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The subject of this paper is the analysis of the cooperation of the Federal Government and the bicameral Austrian parliament in matters relating to Austria’s membership in the European Union. Twenty years since the accession of Austria to the EU structures, its passing in 2015 encourages a refl ection on the process of adaptation of this country to day-to-day functioning in the European Union, as well as on the challenges and diffi culties, which emerged in political practice. An amendment of Austria’s Constitution enacted a year before accession provide for the constructive cooperation of the executive and legislative authorities on activities within the EU, thus ensuring that the National Council (Nationalrat) and Federal Council (Bundesrat) have a decent impact on the European policy of the Federal Government1. The provisions introduced were meant, despite the ongoing process of Europeanisation, to protect the identity of the National Constitution and political principles. The amendment was designed to maintain the high constitutional position of the legislative power, ”participation in the executive process of the federation”, which, as it was pointed out by Paweł Sarnecki, is equipped with an unusually broad set of legislative and control competences over the executive power2. The thesis of the paper assumes that upon accession of Austria to the European Union the bicameral parliament exercises the broad competence relating to control over the activities of the Government in matters of the EU membership it was granted only to a limited extent, which reinforces the dominance of the Federal Government in the EU decision-making processes. Signifi cant research problems, which are the

The Europeanisation of the cooperation of the Federal Government and the parliament in the Republic of Austria – a political analysis