Da li je ujedinjenoj Evropi potreban parlament?
Does The United Europe Need A Parliament?

Summary/Abstract: The major argument of this article is that the European elections 2014, that for the first time provided voters opportunity to actually choose European Commission's future political leadership, came too late. The elections took place in the moment when the decision on the best way of dealing with the crisis had already been made. Therefore, new democratic legitimacy of the European Commission should be seen first and foremost as an excuse for uninhibited implementation of a concrete political vision, which the EU's most powerful member states previously determined and secured by adopting Fiscal compact. The EU's governing elites’ major assumption is that the novelties in the way the Commission is elected will at least to a certain degree bring back the lost illusion of the EU's democratic nature and thus undermine the growing dissatisfaction and resistance of citizens to the so far established anti-crisis policy. If this strategy proves to be successful the EU would regain stability at the expense of further destruction of member states’ constitutional democracy. It is, however, not probable that this attempt to simulate transfer of the party government model to the Eu opean level will bring back stability to the Union. Instead it may turn out that this latest democratic disguise of the European project will have as an unintended consequence further deviation from the road toward the ,,ever closer Union among European peop1es".

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