Making Democracy the Priority in EU Economic Governance: Four Theses on the Foundations of the T-Dem Project

• Autores: Ben Crum
• Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 59-65
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The T-Dem project of Hennette, Piketty, Sacriste and Vauchez puts the spotlight on, possibly, the main shortcoming of the flurry of recent Eurozone reforms: the lack of effective democratic controls. I offer a sympathetic comment on the initiative that goes to endorse and reinforce much of its intentions. However, I also raise two criticisms as I insist on the need to disentangle democratic reforms from any substantial policy proposals and advocate strengthening accountability relations between the present institutions rather than establishing a new Parliamentary Assembly for the Eurozone.