Good gov.

= fulfillment of appropriate criteria

Coexistence of different methods which have different legitimation requirements

Approaches to the EU
Governance debate

Not only territorial/ representative

Eu gov. as methods of
regional cooperation

EU is becoming a political system, subject to the legitimacy criteria

The EU as a "partial polity"
Evolving union, (intergov, participation, networks..) has not become under the same criteria of legitimation
EU Gov as Organs of a Polity

Representative democracy

The EU after Lisbon:

democratic principles

Lecture 18- Trends

in EU Governance-3

art 11

Assumption of overarching systemic legitimation

Direct (EP)/ indirect (Council)/ citizens' right to participate/ decisions as close as possible/ political parties at European level

Citizens' views/ dialogue with representative associations and civil society/ Commission consultations, citizen's initiatives

European Citizen's Initiative

subsidiarity control (reasoned opinions)

New steps to strengthen

democratic legitimacy

National Parliaments
political dialogue with the Commission (opinions)
Election of the Commission President

nomination linked to EP elections

Multi-level political parties

A top-to-bottom hierarchy of norms but with a bottom-to-top hierarchy of authority and real power
Still some fundamental tensions about the system

weak sources of diffuse legitimacy for the institutions

Formal (and inevitable?) parliamentarisation but
still incipient structures of multi-level participation
A partial polity (Wallace) claiming general authority

Old and new issues

Diversity and differentiation

New levels of challenge to traditional understandings of democracy and sovereignty, especially in the Eurozone
There is a strong case for sharing more sovereignty ... This means more than beefing up existing procedures. It means governing together: shifting from coordination to common decision-making, and from rules to institutions.
Governance in EMU
The politics of constrained choice

The goal is to make the multi-level system work in ways that will be perceived by Europes citizens as legitimate and accountable. This necessitates
enriching the quality of politics at EU level and bringing outside views into the domestic. These views are no longer foreign but not domestic either