Democracy

Democracy

Democracy

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.

«According to Macron’s notion of sovereignty, European countries must cooperate if they want to endure in the globalized world»