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Příspěvek Lisabonské smlouvy ke zmírnění demokratického deficitu v EU
Lisbon Treaty as a Contribution for Attenuation of Democratic Deficit in the EU

Author(s): Michal Tomášek
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Lisbon Treaty; European parliament; European Court of Justice; national Parliaments; democratic procedures

Summary/Abstract: Lisbon Treaty brought up new competencies for the European Parliament as well as for national Parliaments of Member States. Such an approach is generally considered to be a decisive step for attenuation of democratic deficit in EU decisive procedures. European Union has been for a long time classified as a “deficit democracy” due to supremacy of executive decisions over parliamentary procedures. Nevertheless these phenomena have been indicated as a proof that the EU was not a “federal superstate” but an international organisation sui generis. The new theoretical analysis including case-law of the European Court of Justice as well as of the Czech Constitutional Court show that a European democratic equilibrium consiss also of the decision procedures of national Parliament. Not only European Union but also its “democratic deficit” is thus a unit sui generis.

  • Issue Year: 56/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 7-20
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Czech