Analyse: Birgt die Politisierung Chancen oder Risiken für die EU?

In dieser Studie geht Notre Europe anhand einer Untersuchung der Debatte und der Diskussion in der Forschung der Frage nach, ob eine Politisierung für die EU Vorteile oder Nachteile bringt.

There are some debates whose degree of maturity is inversely proportional to their importance for the future of European integration. The debate on the “politicisation” of the Union is one of these. Concerned by the expanding gulf between citizens and elites in relation to the integration project, some maintain that the functioning of EU institutions must necessarily become politicised; they advocate a gradual opening of European political debates to partisan competition along traditional left-right lines and the application of the majority principle in the decision-making process. Others see this approach as a hasty transposition of the nation-state model of democratic functioning, which does not take sufficient account of the specificities of the EU’s political system and could bring with it a number of dangers whose consequences might well undermine any intended democratic effects.

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