Assessing the legitimacy of the EU
The Lisbon Treaty could not meet the demands of many as regards the issue of the EU’s legitimacy and democratic governance. By analyzing the literature on the legitimacy of the EU, the article shows why the EU has to fulfill the legitimacy criteria of the liberal-democratic states by defining the EU...
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| Language: | English |
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Università del Salento
2011-02-01
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary Political Studies |
| Online Access: | http://www.idps.unisi.it/issue0/18/assessing-the-legitimacy-of-the-eu |