What, If Anything, Is Wrong with a Copenhagen Commission? The Idea of Democracy Protection in the EU Revisited |
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Author:
| Müller, Jan-Werner |
ISBN: | 978-1-62117-254-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | German Marshall Fund
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $0.00 |
Book Description:
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The European Union has two challenges regarding democracy protection: one is the question of how the European Union should respond to the actions of the current Hungarian government. The other challenge is how to devise, for the long term, a new set of institutions or "mechanisms" to respond to deteriorations of democracy and the rule of law in a member state. Both challenges can be looked at from at least two crucial, but in the end clearly different, perspectives. One is a practical...
More DescriptionThe European Union has two challenges regarding democracy protection: one is the question of how the European Union should respond to the actions of the current Hungarian government. The other challenge is how to devise, for the long term, a new set of institutions or "mechanisms" to respond to deteriorations of democracy and the rule of law in a member state. Both challenges can be looked at from at least two crucial, but in the end clearly different, perspectives. One is a practical one: what is deemed politically feasible and what is likely to be effective in changing the conduct of a member state government? The other one is more clearly normative: what can be justified from, broadly speaking, a liberal democratic perspective?