The euro crisis has brought about remarkable changes in the economic governance of the European Union (EU) and consequently in the ways the executives can be held to account. By focusing on the interactions between national parliament and government in Poland, the fifth-largest EU member state by population, this chapter discusses debates concerning the EU annual cycle of fiscal and economic surveillance - the European Semester, related in particular to its most important element – the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs). The goal of this paper is to assess how parliamentary scrutiny affects the level of implementation of CSRs. The positions of Members of Parliament (MPs) towards CSRs and connected arguments expressed in parliamentary discussions are explained by applying an analytical framework of justification and contestation as two basic forms of accountability. On accountability dimension, most questions, which were asked by both majority and opposition MPs, fall within the justification category in which the demands for explanation or information from the representatives from two ministries responsible for finance and development were made. On the efficiency dimension, one can hardly see any link at all as the scrutiny of the CSRs has a limited impact on their implementation.

This chapter examines the impact of the process of implementing Brexit on the pre-existing constitutional problem of delegated legislation. Its core argument is that one likely legacy of the Brexit process will be (and perhaps already is) the exacerbation of the already troubling constitutional position of delegated legislation. But it does also, albeit very tentatively, highlight some indications that the Brexit process may yet lay the foundations for improving the position of delegated legislation in the UK’s constitutional landscape. After providing a critical overview of the (pre-Brexit) constitutional position of delegated legislation - and thereby setting out the context in which the heavy reliance on delegated legislation in the implementation of Brexit arose - the chapter examines the place of delegated legislation in the legislative response to Brexit, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on delegated legislation by the UK government under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, before closing by excavating some more encouraging elements of the story.