Listele transnaţionale în contextul alegerilor europarlamentare – către o reconfigurare a democraţiei reprezentative în cadrul Uniunii
Transnational lists in the context of the Euro parliamentarian elections – towards a reconfiguration of the representative democracy within the Union

Summary/Abstract: In the light of the European Parliament elections of 2019, this article proposes an alternative vision regarding the concept of representative democracy in the European Union, and a special focus will be placed on the need to introduce a distinct category of European parliamentarians elected according to certain transnational lists. Representativeness within the European Parliament in Strasbourg is reassessed starting from the need for finding a fair balance between “Europe of the nations” and “Europe of the citizens”, as interdependent positions of a political and legal structure of federalist nature. The article aims at describing the European perspective over the representative democracy as a perspective that conjugates liberalism and communitarianism, recognizing both the individual (citizen), and the collective (national communities corresponding to the member States) as structural elements of the European political order.

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