Political Union: Legitimacy and Efficiency to Overcome the Crisis. Issue 2 (December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chopin, Thierry
• Is Part Of: European view. Volume 12:Issue 2(2013)
• Page Start: 307
• Page End: 315
• Publication Date: 2013-12
• Subjects: Political union -- European governance -- Decision-making -- European Parliament -- Democratic accountability -- Eurogroup -- Treaties reform; Political science -- Europe -- Periodicals; Europe -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 320.94
• DOI: 10.1007/s12290-013-0280-4
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1781-6858

Abstract

This paper aims to outline a number of concrete proposals in view of providing detailed operational content for the project to create a genuine European political leadership and to strengthen legitimacy and democratic control of the decision-making process. The legal feasibility of each of the proposals set out here is analysed by identifying the type of reform it involves: innovation, using the treaty as it stands; limited changes to the Treaty under the simplified revision procedure; and more important changes to the Treaty under the ordinary revision procedure.