legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … gap between the EU and its citizens, as materialised in the EU-discourse of participatory democracy. On the basis of an … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

As the EU enters a new political cycle, this article provides a critical analysis of the state of EU democracy by … focusing on its two main components: representative and participatory democracy through their theoretical and practical … realities. It argues that it is for EU democracy — and potentially for the Conference on the Future of Europe — to rethink its …