The limits of the EU : enlargement , deepening and democracy Wolfgang

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

The No-Destination Ship of Priority-Setting in Healthcare: A Call for More Democracy

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

Europe’s Democratic Deficits through the Looking Glass: The European Union as a Challenge for Democracy

Despite widespread disagreement about democratic deficits in the European Union (EU), most critics begin by conceiving democracy as a problem for the EU. Seeing the EU as undemocratic or insufficiently democratic, they devise institutional innovations to democratize it. These innovations seem to require breaking the traditional link between democracy and the nation-state, which in this context ...

درس‌های همگرایی اتحادیه اروپا برای اکو

EU relative success of regional integration has encouraged other regions of the world to make new regional arrangements with the aim of economic growth and development as well as extending peace and friendship in their own regions. Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was formed in line with the same goals. At the first glance, these two regional bodies might seem incomparable as far as thei...

Chapter 18 The Democracy Deficit and the Enlarged European Union

In 2004, the European Union (EU) was enlarged to include several countries of East Central Europe. A timely expansion as older member countries were starting to show signs that this ongoing endeavor might be reaching a critical period. More widespread in the West was the popular perception that the EU was becoming a decreasingly transparent and less democratic elite playground. Therefore the re...