The Declining Role of Institutions in the European Integration Process
The Declining Role of Institutions in the European Integration Process

Summary/Abstract: The European Union has already crossed the border of its sixty-year history, but it does so mired both in uncertainty about its future and the condition of a certain disaffection or indifference on the part of its citizens. The causes of this situation are discussed in this paper, paying special attention to the phenomenon of the loss of institutional density in the process of European integration. In this author’s view this situation is a result of an erroneous policy of expanding the EU without deepening its integration. This policy and the weakening of the European institutions are also carrying the withdrawal of the European Latin countries from the heart of Europe.

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