Technocracy and the Tragedy of EU Governance

In a historical perspective, technocracy, emphasising bureaucratic and technical expertise in political, social economic areas, is double edge sword: on the one side, it guaranteed condition for international cooperation post-WW II, providing as an ideologically neutral basis governance politically bitter climate. On other hand, indicates tragedy of increasing delegitimization EU governance, causing alienation political willing from peo-ple that (mis-)used by populists present-day their slogan ‘back to people’. Technocracy theoretically symbolised through functionalism integration, manifest re-definition democracy “input”- “output”-orientation e.g. Fritz Scharpf. The politics being trapped technocratic possibility calamity coop-eration at same time analytically heart understand contemporary approaches (dis-)integration identity. However, both understanding (populist) opposition integration processes systemic phenomena, deeply seeded structure policy studies themselves, well suggesting triangular democratic process rectify EU’s birth deficit, paper significantly goes beyond current (e.g. dis-integration) non-normative stance. These are still anchored epistemological commitments neo-functionalism need finally be overcome they tend ignore human factor agency politics.