CAUZE ALE DEFICITUI DE DEMOCRAȚIE ÎN UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ, LA NIVEL INSTITUȚIONAL, ÎN TIMPUL "ETAPEI NICE"
CAUSES OF THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, AT INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL, DURING THE “NICE STAGE”

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper, we shall analyse a specific stage of the EU general evolution (by taking into account the EU dynamics, from the communitarian treaties until the Treaty of Nice, inclusively). It is, in fact, a historical look over the dynamic juridical nature of the EU institutional system, destined to underline its originality even from the EU inception (as a political effect of 1993/Maastricht treaty). We talk about an original vision regarding the institutions and the competences of three entities of regional integration (the three European initial Communities, from which EU has borrowed, lately, the institutional framework, as a cohesive element of the entire European political order).The paper is identifying, also, some sources of the chronic ”democratic deficit” that EU has faced from the beginning until the Nice treaty, a phenomenon that has marked even the advanced stage of the Lisbon treaty.

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