Legitymizacja władzy Unii Europejskiej – wybrane aspekty instytucjonalno-proceduralne
Legitimization of the European Union’s authority – selected institutional and procedural aspects

Summary/Abstract: Being a specific international organization, the European Union enjoys a particularly extensive range of powers, while the laws enacted within its framework have legal consequences not only for EU member states, but their citizens as well. Understood in this manner, the ‘sovereign activity’ of the EU has an extensive scope. This study is focused on issues related to the nature of the legitimization of the EU’s authority as concerns its procedural and institutional aspects. The issues of who institutionally wields power at EU level and what relations occur between the ‘carriers’ of EU authority, as well as whether the decision-making processes and the scope of individual institutions in this matter might be perceived as factors legitimizing the European Union’s democratic character, are discussed from the point of view of the institutional and procedural aspects of decision-making at EU level. Key issues pertaining to the topics of EU authority, institutional actors and decision-making processes within the European Union are indicated.

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