Is it all about European Democracy? The Motives behind the Institutionalisation of the Spitzenkandidaten Procedure
The European Parliament elections in 2014 and 2019 were different insofar as European citizens had the possibility to ‘directly’ influence who could become the next president of the European Commission. This innovation is based on the idea of ‘Spitzenkandidaten’, where a vote for a given political p...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Contemporary European Research |
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Online Access: | https://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/950 |