Příspěvek Lisabonské smlouvy ke zmírnění demokratického deficitu v EU
Lisbon Treaty as a Contribution for Attenuation of Democratic Deficit in the EU

Summary/Abstract: Lisbon Treaty brought up new competencies for the European Parliament as well as for national Parliaments of Member States. Such an approach is generally considered to be a decisive step for attenuation of democratic deficit in EU decisive procedures. European Union has been for a long time classified as a “deficit democracy” due to supremacy of executive decisions over parliamentary procedures. Nevertheless these phenomena have been indicated as a proof that the EU was not a “federal superstate” but an international organisation sui generis. The new theoretical analysis including case-law of the European Court of Justice as well as of the Czech Constitutional Court show that a European democratic equilibrium consiss also of the decision procedures of national Parliament. Not only European Union but also its “democratic deficit” is thus a unit sui generis.

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