The EU’s Post-Lisbon Democratic Development: What Lessons for Iceland?
Apart from the question of whether permanent exemptions from EU rules could be achieved in Iceland’s (by now halted) EU accession negotiations, the EU’s institutional development in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty has been used as a key argument for the conservative government to first suspend the neg...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:80a8b6f90daa415ab14ab75bfea83cc9 2023-05-15T16:50:08+02:00 The EU’s Post-Lisbon Democratic Development: What Lessons for Iceland? Maximilian Conrad 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2014.10.1.3 https://doaj.org/article/80a8b6f90daa415ab14ab75bfea83cc9 EN IS eng ice University of Iceland http://www.irpa.is/article/view/1321 https://doaj.org/toc/1670-6803 https://doaj.org/toc/1670-679X 1670-6803 1670-679X doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2014.10.1.3 https://doaj.org/article/80a8b6f90daa415ab14ab75bfea83cc9 Stjórnmál og Stjórnsýsla, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 31-50 (2014) European Union Lisbon Treaty institutional reform democratic deficit Political institutions and public administration (General) JF20-2112 Political science (General) JA1-92 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2014.10.1.3 2022-12-31T11:05:46Z Apart from the question of whether permanent exemptions from EU rules could be achieved in Iceland’s (by now halted) EU accession negotiations, the EU’s institutional development in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty has been used as a key argument for the conservative government to first suspend the negotiations and subsequently also to propose to withdraw the membership application altogether. In this regard, concerns about the democratic quality of EU decision making play a key role. However, as this article argues, the institutional development of the EU since Lisbon, particularly in relation to democratic governance, has been considerably more subtle than it is claimed to be and has to be seen as a continuation of a much longer process. More importantly, however, the debate leaves pressing questions about the nature of the EU as a polity unaddressed. In this context, this article addresses the question of what kind of democracy is possible in the kind of polity sui generis that the EU undoubtedly is. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 10 1 31 |
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Apart from the question of whether permanent exemptions from EU rules could be achieved in Iceland’s (by now halted) EU accession negotiations, the EU’s institutional development in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty has been used as a key argument for the conservative government to first suspend the negotiations and subsequently also to propose to withdraw the membership application altogether. In this regard, concerns about the democratic quality of EU decision making play a key role. However, as this article argues, the institutional development of the EU since Lisbon, particularly in relation to democratic governance, has been considerably more subtle than it is claimed to be and has to be seen as a continuation of a much longer process. More importantly, however, the debate leaves pressing questions about the nature of the EU as a polity unaddressed. In this context, this article addresses the question of what kind of democracy is possible in the kind of polity sui generis that the EU undoubtedly is. |
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