… The Eurozone crisis has rekindled the debate on the democratic deficit of the … the Heads of
States’ in the EU. It is demonstrated that many of the solutions to the alleged democratic deficit …

… in the national member states. The widespread notion of ‘democratic deficit’ plays down the
difficulties that will almost inevitably arise when transferring democracy from the national to …

… ’ concept of democratic deficit, we can conclude that he does not consider that the increase
of the competences of the European Parliament will diminish the democratic deficit, but it will …

… democratic deficit arises at the EU level if the policy area is shifted there. The mode of
decision-making at the EU level is not as democratic … This creates a serious democratic deficit that …

… to suggest that the debate about Europe’s democratic deficit is still in the standard-setting
stage … It should be obvious, but it is easily forgotten, that arguments about the democratic deficit …

… Critics assert that the EU suffers from a ‘democratic deficit.’ But many democratic deficit
arguments … , or do they miss essential aspects of the democratic deficit debate? To answer, we …

… state solves the problem of the democratic deficit? The federal state meets reasonable
democratic … or that of its constituent states, and provided that the constitution common to all of the …

… This book argues instead that member-state regulatory processes that operate under EU …
not a democratic deficit but a democratic surplus generated by EU law in the member states. …

… To begin with, inasmuch as it is elected by the citizens of the Member States of the Union, …
from democratic deficit, as long as we limit the assessment of this deficit to electoral democracy…

… us that grave democratic deficits can also exist at the national level in member states and that
the … This article will place the EU’s struggles with democratic deficits in its member states in …