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The Inherently Undemocratic EU Democracy:Moving Beyond the ‘Democratic Deficit’ Debate
No full textThis chapter argues that the debate on the democratic ‘deficit’ or ‘default’ of the EU, both generally and specifically with reference to the Euro-crisis, is misplaced. What is usually perceived as a crisis of EU democracy is a manifestation of a more systemic displacement of democracy, as an inherent feature of the European project. This assumption is explored by examining the ideological and normative influences that informed the EU’s construction, as well as the forces that have continued to provide a vehicle for those influences to take political and legal form. These suggest that the undemocratic nature of the EU is necessary for the survival and perpetuation of the Union’s specific vision of a common (free) market, and thus of contemporary European capitalism, as well as for the affirmation and continuity of the EU bureaucracy and a symbiotic world of socio-economic interests. Consequently, the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU cannot be palliated through institutional reform. Moreover, the EU will likely increasingly engage in a process of building European identity based on a singular vision, resulting in the gradual exclusion of those who do not share a commitment to the EU’s market telos and the marginalisation of substantive democratic critique
The Inherently Undemocratic EU Democracy:Moving Beyond the ‘Democratic Deficit’ Debate
No full textThis chapter argues that the debate on the democratic ‘deficit’ or ‘default’ of the EU, both generally and specifically with reference to the Euro-crisis, is misplaced. What is usually perceived as a crisis of EU democracy is a manifestation of a more systemic displacement of democracy, as an inherent feature of the European project. This assumption is explored by examining the ideological and normative influences that informed the EU’s construction, as well as the forces that have continued to provide a vehicle for those influences to take political and legal form. These suggest that the undemocratic nature of the EU is necessary for the survival and perpetuation of the Union’s specific vision of a common (free) market, and thus of contemporary European capitalism, as well as for the affirmation and continuity of the EU bureaucracy and a symbiotic world of socio-economic interests. Consequently, the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU cannot be palliated through institutional reform. Moreover, the EU will likely increasingly engage in a process of building European identity based on a singular vision, resulting in the gradual exclusion of those who do not share a commitment to the EU’s market telos and the marginalisation of substantive democratic critique
The Inherently Undemocratic EU Democracy:Moving Beyond the ‘Democratic Deficit’ Debate
No full textThis chapter argues that the debate on the democratic ‘deficit’ or ‘default’ of the EU, both generally and specifically with reference to the Euro-crisis, is misplaced. What is usually perceived as a crisis of EU democracy is a manifestation of a more systemic displacement of democracy, as an inherent feature of the European project. This assumption is explored by examining the ideological and normative influences that informed the EU’s construction, as well as the forces that have continued to provide a vehicle for those influences to take political and legal form. These suggest that the undemocratic nature of the EU is necessary for the survival and perpetuation of the Union’s specific vision of a common (free) market, and thus of contemporary European capitalism, as well as for the affirmation and continuity of the EU bureaucracy and a symbiotic world of socio-economic interests. Consequently, the ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU cannot be palliated through institutional reform. Moreover, the EU will likely increasingly engage in a process of building European identity based on a singular vision, resulting in the gradual exclusion of those who do not share a commitment to the EU’s market telos and the marginalisation of substantive democratic critique
The authoritarian neoliberalism of the EU:Legal form and international politico-economic sources
No full textWhich refugee crisis?: On the proxy of the systemic Eurocrisis and its spatialities
No full textEurope was shocked by the news that a boat full of migrants sunk into the Mediterranean Sea taking with it fifty-seven people. The episode occurred when the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla, in its effort to protect the common EU borders collided with the migrants’ boat. Some serious debates took place then, raising questions as to whether it was an accident or part of a political effort to stop the flow of migrants or whether the Italian Navy could have intervened and rescued the migrants. The year was 1997 and the non-EU migrants were Albanians fleeing the 1997 civil war that followed the collapse of the ‘pyramid’ banking system in their home country. The transition of the country to market economy and the new ambitious financial innovations had been promoted by the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) but also the European Economic Community (EEC)
Book Review:Employment Law and Human Rights (Third Edition), by Robin Allen QC, Rachel Crasnow QC, Anna Beale, Claire McCann, Rachel Barrett. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018
No full textA Brexit irony: the influence of the post 1980s UK market liberalism tradition on the transformation of the Greek collective labour law system as part of EMU related ‘conditionality'
No full textThis paper seeks to explore the irony of British regulatory and ideological influence on the normative choices by which EU institutions have opted to respond to the Eurocrisis. The reforms on the Greek collective labour law system that have pursued thus far are presented, and their underlying normative rationale is critically explored. It is suggested that the Eurocrisis has been but an opportunity for the promotion of extreme free market, if not neoliberal, agendas, in the pursuit of economic theories, and respective policies, that are already facing considerable critique. Finally, the paper examines whether a British-influenced model of collective autonomy is suitable for restoring growth and social cohesion in a country whose economy is certainly not yet out of the woods, and compatible with the EU objective of a social market economy
Gig Work και νομικός χαρακτηρισμός:το παράδειγμα του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και η χρησιμότητά του
No full textThe European Fund for the Creation of Youth Employment vis-a-vis CFREU Solidarity rights: Relationship and potential impact
No full textThe chapter looks into the background of the ‘European Fund for the Creation of Youth Employment’ (EFE) policy proposal, which was developed upon the original relevant May 2013 Franco-German initiative to address youth unemployment, before turning to assess the final proposal's possible legal ramifications. It explores the hypothetical potential for the EFE to have any substantive legal impact on the interpretation of EU law and, more specifically, of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the European Union. However, both as a matter of correct interpretative methodology and due to the clear constitutional architecture of the EU legal system, the piece suggests that it is the EFE that ought to be judged against the standards set by the CFREU and EU primary law rather than the other way around. Hence, the relevant issues as to compatibility of the EFE compatibility with Union law are also discussed
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