The Democratic Deficit in the EU Institutional Structure

Mihaela Coprean

Europolity – Continuity and Change in European Governance - Old Series, 2009, vol. 3, issue 1, 104-114

Abstract: This paper’s aim is to analyze the democratic deficit of the European Union. This study will not examine the structure and the functioning of the European institutions, but the way that the three major institutions (the European Parliament, the European Commission, the EU’s Council) interact and how they influence the so called European citizenship, an essential aspect for the defining and explaining the democratic deficit.

Keywords: Democratic deficit; the European Parliament; the European Commission; the EU’s Council; legitimacy; a European Constitution; the EU’s legal status; international organization; federal state; the European institutional balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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