Democracy

17 April 2019

Integration-through-crisis: The triumph of expediency over democratic legitimacy?

By Nicole Scicluna

Over the past decade, the response given by Member States to the multidimensional European crisis has given rise to a distinct integrative mode, namely ‘integration through crisis’, which may be contrasted with the integration through law that characterised the pre-Maastricht development of the European integration project.

18 March 2018

Four options for the democratic future of the EU

By Jan Pieter Beetz

The Euro-crisis, migration crisis and the Brexit have been catalysts for a vibrant debate on a democratic future of the EU. Politicians and academics have contributed to this debate defending blueprints for democratizing Europe. I propose that we can broadly distinguish four proposals.

3 February 2017

Brexit According to the UK Supreme Court: the Miller Judgment

By Federico Fabbrini

The recent Supreme Court judgment might change the UK government’s Brexit plans

23 January 2017

Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: The Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part II

By Igor Guardiancich

The second instalment of our series on Central and Eastern Europe analyzes the decline of post-socialist democracies and its causes

4 January 2017

The crisis of democracy and the European Union

By Michele Salvati

Unlike what many think, Europe’s democratic problem has to do less with its representation mechanisms than with the output of its political processes.

15 December 2016

Left populism, Laclau and the case of Podemos

By Giulio Ferraresi

While Podemos is the movement most clearly influenced by Ernesto Laclau, the philosopher’s views may apply to left-wing populism well beyond Spain.

12 December 2016

Romania and right-wing populism: An eastern European outlier?

By Cornel Ban

nlike other eastern European countries, Romania is resisting the temptations of right-wing populism—at least for the time being.

9 June 2016

Why and How the Spitzenkandidaten Procedure Should be Further Developed

By Johannes Muller Gomez

The 2014 elections to the European Parliament introduced the Spitzenkandidaten system. In order to overcome the democratic deficit of the EU, a further development of this procedure is necessary.

26 May 2016

The Public Consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Political Manoeuvre or Real Will?

By Angie Gago

Can the new public consultation process on the European Pillar of Social Rights help revamp the European social model?

6 April 2016

The Executive Deficit of the European Union

By Sergio Fabbrini

The oft-repeated mantra of “more coordination” is unlikely to provide a real solution to Europe’s political crises unless the EU’s dual executive architecture is first democratized and rationalized.

«The fact that the next European Parliament elections are going to coincide with the MFF negotiations, as the Commissioner Oettinger observed, is going to increase the politicisation of the negotiations themselves, making them more difficult»

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