Abstract
Autore:
Salvati Eugenio
Titolo:
"Il deficit democratico e il ruolo del Parlamento europeo. Quali problemi ancora aperti?"
The democratic deficit issue
is one of the most debated in the European
Union (EU) studies, in particular after the approval
of the Maastricht Treaty and the beginning
of a long period of institutional reforms
within the EU. This topic has gained even more
attention after the breaking–out of the deep
economic and financial crisis started in 2008.
The way in which European institutions
had manged the crisis, in particular in some
countries like Greece and – partially – Italy,
have risen questions not only about the democratic
functioning of the EU but even on the
capacity of the supranational institutions to
restrict the effective functioning of democracy
within the EU member states.
In this article, the thesis of the democratic
deficit will be discussed and some
of its most relevant features will be underlined.
The article will concentrate its
analysis on the institutional aspects of the
democratic deficit and in particular, it will
be focused on the role of the European Parliament
(EP). The empowerment of the EP
represents a kind of overtaking of the perceived
democratic deficit? If the answer is
negative, which are the reasons behind this
failure? Furthermore, the article will reflect
over the absence of a real European political
space and how this absence has been
managed during the last 2014 European
elections.
