Is the European Parliament a proper Parliament?

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, Cardiff University (Political Science), language: English, abstract: “If there would not be a parliament, every waiter could govern” (Otto von Bismarck). With this statement, the Prussian-German statesman Otto von Bismarck emphasised the importance of a parliament within a democracy. The Parliament is the...