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- Title
El proceso legislativo en el Tratado de Lisboa: privilegio de la eficacia en detrimento de la democracia.
- Authors
Micolta Portocarrero, Ma. Catalina
- Abstract
The democratic deficit in the European Union proposes a series of questions about democratic legitimacy in decision-making processes at the community level. Although there are different factors involved which configure this democratic deficit, this study only focuses on the analysis of two aspects: on the one hand, the institutional weakness of the European Parliament against the Council predominance in the process of legislative approval in the EU, and, on the other, the opacity of this legislative process, which hinders the correct information of EU citizens and also prevents the implementation of accountability mechanisms. To address these questions, the Lisbon Treaty makes a number of reforms and new additions that seek both to strengthen the European Parliament into the legislative process and the public deliberative processes within it; however, this study shows how the development of a series of negotiation mechanisms of an informal nature into the legislative process not only make insufficient the additions of the Lisbon Treaty to overcome the problem of the democratic deficit, but also deepens the democratic deterioration in the EU.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union countries; TREATY on European Union (1992). Protocols, etc., 2007 December 13; DEMOCRATIC deficit; DEMOCRACY; EUROPEAN Union; PARLIAMENTARY practice; LEGISLATION
- Publication
Papel Político, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 1, p265
- ISSN
0122-4409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11144/Javeriana.PAPO19-1.pltl