European Studies Quarterly

The crisis of legitimacy of the EU from the perspective of intergovernmentalism

2015, 2015 (38), No. 4

Łukasz Zamęcki

0000-0002-2135-6415

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.15.6

Publication date

24.04.2016

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology, international relations

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

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.

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