| Summary: | Traditionally, the regional parliaments have been excluded from European decision-making and have occupied an invisible place in that context. The early warning system in monitoring the principle of subsidiariety introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon, allows for the participation of the assembies of regions with legislative competences together with the national parliaments and opens a new mechanism full of Europeanizing. Thus, the Spanish frameworkrelegates the regional parliaments to a purely testimonial or advisory function. So the Spanish law at present is configured as a huge obstacle to the process of Europeanization of autonomous parliaments. Beyond the necessary adjustments (regulatory and systemic) that should be undertaken at both the central and the regional levels, the current Spanish situation reveals interesting lines of action and initiatives that indicate a growing willingness of participation on the part of regional parliaments in monitoringsubsidiarity.
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