European elections of May 2014 started a complex process that will redefine in next months the frame of EU’s governance: the Governments of the 28 member States have proposed Jean Claude Juncker as the next President of the Commission, and parliament is now on the way of his election. This new process is also characterized by the presentation of candidates to the Presidency by the major European parties and is based on two different, if not diverging, paths of legitimization. Art. 10 TUE establishes that “the functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy” but it also provides that “citizens are directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament” and that “member States are represented in the European Council”. The European Parliament would be the place where popular sovereignty resides while the European Council would allow national interests to stand out. Only the political mediation among the positions of European political parties and national Governments is then able to provide for a satisfactory balance.
Parlamento e Commissione: il difficile equilibrio fra rappresentanza e governabilità nell’Unione europea
GRATTERI, Andrea
2014-01-01
Abstract
European elections of May 2014 started a complex process that will redefine in next months the frame of EU’s governance: the Governments of the 28 member States have proposed Jean Claude Juncker as the next President of the Commission, and parliament is now on the way of his election. This new process is also characterized by the presentation of candidates to the Presidency by the major European parties and is based on two different, if not diverging, paths of legitimization. Art. 10 TUE establishes that “the functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy” but it also provides that “citizens are directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament” and that “member States are represented in the European Council”. The European Parliament would be the place where popular sovereignty resides while the European Council would allow national interests to stand out. Only the political mediation among the positions of European political parties and national Governments is then able to provide for a satisfactory balance.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.