Open AccessThe crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of intergovernmentalism
Author(s) -
Łukasz Zamęcki
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
przegląd europejski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-6023
pISSN - 1641-2478
DOI - 10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.15.6
Subject(s) - legitimacy , intergovernmentalism , european union , perspective (graphical) , political science , feeling , political economy , law and economics , european integration , law , sociology , economic policy , business , psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
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.