About the Growth and Decline of the European Union, such as Falanster at Scăieni - a social and utopian experiment of the European West - or how union law can create the democratic deficit of the organization
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Despre creşterea şi descreşterea Uniunii Europene precum Falansterul de la Scăieni - un experiment social şi utopic al Occidentului european - sau cum dreptul unional poate să creeze deficitul de democraţie al organizaţiei PARTEA I
About the Growth and Decline of the European Union, such as Falanster at Scăieni - a social and utopian experiment of the European West - or how union law can create the democratic deficit of the organization PART I

Author(s): Valentin-Stelian Bădescu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Universităţii George Bacovia din Bacău România
Keywords: Romania; European Union; Romanian law; European law; identity; sovereignty; national unity; democratic deficit of the EU; participation, transparency

Summary/Abstract: Let us truth: national identity. How can the current crisis of the European Union be remedied? Short term impossible. We are in a situation where the EU as such can not claim to be able to reform or change to respond to the current challenges and anxieties, because it does not. On the one hand, we witness the inevitable elitism of Brussels and an attitude that reminds us of the 18th century of "enlightened despotism." On the other hand, in a way, as well noted, "the EU is accused of being elitist, but it becomes even more elitist, because only at this level can a pan-European arrangement be accepted." It is a risky trend, however, because it raises even more acutely the issue of European democracy or democratic deficit. This is the secret of Polichinelle in the EU. There is no "European democracy", because there is no European public space, no proper representation, no electoral cycles, no candidates at the continental level. Europe's main problem is that we use and demand "democratic language that speaks of participation and transparency" and we are doing it at EU level, but "if we make participation and transparency the two pillars on which we want to reform the EU, then we will destroy it.

  • Issue Year: VII/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-58
  • Page Count: 54
  • Language: English, Romanian
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