Deficitul de democraţie în politica decizională a Uniunii Europene
The Deficit Of Democracy in the Decision-Making Policy of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The fate of Europe has been lately decided by a center of power that becomes smaller and smaller, the Member States being obliged one way or another to execute the decision of this small group, whether they are convenient or not. After noticing that states do not agree to their plans of political integration and creation of supranational authority, European leaders have decided to impose upon all Member States of the European Union the parliamentary procedure of ratifying treaties. The experience has shown that Parliaments may be controlled and thus there is no risk of any of them rejecting the measures adopted by the Union’s nucleus of power. Therefore, having the will of the states ignored on purpose, the public debates constantly bring forward the idea of replacing the popular democracy with “a democracy of elites”. But even at the level of so-called elites a certain hierarchy may be noticed and the decision-making process is thus in the hands of a rather small group of individuals, which comes into conflict with the values of democracy. Taking into consideration the fact that the alternative to democracy is dictatorship, one may notice that the decision-making policy of the European Union is beginning to be characterized by tendencies of authoritarianism.

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