EU Institutional Governance: Exploiting the Potential for Democratic Reform

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Series Details No 35, March 2016
Publication Date 01/03/2016
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The writer argues that an increasing number of agencies reinforce the sentiment that traditional (national) forums are easily bypassed, sovereign governments emasculated, and civil society actors marginalised. Formally, the Treaties eclare that the functioning of the Union 'is founded on representative democracy' – yet in the eyes of its critics, it poses a threat to precisely the latter.

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