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"To What Extent Does Democratic Deficit Exist in the EU"
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"To What Extent Does Democratic Deficit Exist in the EU" An argument against a Federal Europe is that the European Commission is over-bureaucratic and that the European Parliament is an expensive burden. Opponents of federalism note that there is only one chamber in the Parliament and that the Commission takes on both a legislative and an executive role. With Commissioners being unelected and MEPs being not really accountable to the electorate, EU institutions seem remote from ordinary people and to transfer more power to them would be to transfer power to "faceless bureaucrats". Archer and Butler describe "the shift in decision making powers from the national to the EU level, without accompanying strengthening of parliamentary control over the executive." Thus this essay will analyse whether this assessment of the extent of democratic deficit, exists or not. The European Commission is the politically independent institution that represents and upholds the interests of the...
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