The crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of intergovernmentalism

• Authors: Zamęcki, Łukasz

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to analyse the sources of the crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of the intergovernmental paradigm. The paper also focuses on the nature of this crisis and the possibilities of increasing the legitimacy of the EU. The author claims that the crisis of legitimacy is a result of the fact that there is “too much Europe”, not “too little”. According to Andrew Moravcsik’s approach to intergovernmentalism, the EU crisis is a result of feeling that the European Union has ceased to be seen as an effective tool for realising the interests of the states, or that the states started to define their preferences in the integration process in an unreasonable way.

Keywords

EN

European Union; legitimacy; intergovernmentalism

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2015 (38)(4)
• Pages: 110-119

Dates

published

2020-03-21

Contributors

author

Zamęcki, Łukasz

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.15.6