Reflections on the Euro-Crisis and the Future of Representative Democracy in Europe

Abstract

The euro-crisis has given a new twist to the rise of executive politics, the marginalization of parliamentary deliberation and decision-making in Europe. The euro crisis has raised not only serious questions pertaining to the nature and workings of systems of representation; it brings up fundamental challenges pertaining to the very nature of political order in Europe. The multilevel EU configuration reconfigures systems of representation and governing; this process has been given a new twist now through the manner in which the EU system has mutated under the weight of the crisis and how it has been dealt with. The crisis has for one made dramatically manifest the paralyzing coexistence of the multiple perspectives economic community, intergovernmental union and parliamentary union - within the same legal and institutional framework of the EU. These different perspectives come with different requirements pertaining to representation and democracy. To delineate a new political order for the multiplicity of perspectives on integration constitutes the historical challenge for European elites and citizens. The panel seeks to address this fundamental challenge paying particular heed to the questions of representation and democracy.

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