Grabbe, H. and Lehne, S., (2013), “The 2014 European elections: Why a partisan Commission president would be bad for the EU”, Centre for European Reform, 14 October.
The EU urgently needs measures to improve its democratic legitimacy and the decisions taken in its institutions. But the most prominent proposal touted in Brussels as the solution to the democratic deficit could make the problems worse rather than better. The idea is to turn the European Parliament (EP) elections into a way to select the next president of the European Commission, with the four party families putting forward their choices as the face and voice of their 2014 campaigns.
Relevant Posts
- Duff, A. and Verhofstadt, G., (2013), “Europe: an end to fallacy”, European Politics and Policy Blog, 08 October.
- Merler, S., (2013), “Is there a path to political union?”, Bruegel, 23 September.
- Piedrafita, S., (2013), “Elections to the European Parliament and the trouble with vox populi”,European Policy Institutes Network, No.22, 22 August.