Forum: Does the EU Suffer from a Democratic Deficit?

[Full text of articles can be found in the Intereconomics Archive two years after the initial publication]

The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate has given new vigour to the debate on the European Union’s widely perceived democratic deficit. Does the EU indeed have a serious democracy problem? What are the options open to the European political leadership and which of these should be acted upon?

A series of articles:

Christopher Lord: Does the EU suffer from a democratic deficit?

Jacques Thomassen: The Dutch and the European Union: a sudden cold shoulder?

Amital Etzioni: EU: Closing the Community deficit

Andrew Moravcsik: The myth of Europe's 'Democratic deficit'

Intereconomics: Archive http://archive.intereconomics.eu/years/

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