national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

referred to as the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU. Or perhaps better: an alleged ‘legitimacy deficit’. The Convention on the … majoritarian democratic accountability stands out as a central condition of normative legitimacy. From that perspective it is not … of state sovereignty, democracy, and legitimacy. I first remind you of the bewildering literature of alleged symptoms …

conceive of democracy in procedural terms, and not in substantive terms. However, the democratic legitimacy of laws stems from …? Third, what precisely must democracy prescribe as the indispensable condition for political legitimacy? …

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …