The European Institute of Romania is pleased to announce the publication of the Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy volume. This publication examines the relationship between the democratic institutions of the member states and those of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at voting and decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particular the ‘Europeanisation’ of representative democracy at national level. It also assesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level.
Mihai Sebe, Bogdan Mureșan and Eliza Vaș from the Studies and Analyses Unit (EIR) are among the European researchers that have been published in the volume. The chapter offers an overview of how the Romanian representative democracy model was Europeanised after 2007. They structured the research along three main areas: the changes in the national context after 2007; the EU dimension of the national parliament; and the relationship between EU politics and the national representatives (Brussels and Bucharest-based).
The book is available online and can be downloaded from here.
Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy is part of the ‘Towards a Citizens’ Union’ project co-funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme and coordinated by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). It is the product of collaboration with 20 renowned think tanks from the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN). This volume follows the first in the series, Direct Democracy in the EU: The Myth of a Citizens’ Union. A third and final publication will offer ideas for how democratic institutions and processes can meet the challenges facing Europe today.