A Democratic Deficit in the EU?
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2016
- A video lecture for law students that examines the argument that there is a democratic deficit in the EU. Both sides of the argument are considered in the light of recent Treaty changes and the make up of EU institutions.
Marcus, you are a saviour. You really are an excellent teacher, thank you!
I've got an essay due in 2 weeks about this topic. Such a helpful video to put my thoughts in order to structure my essay better. I also like the other law videos and normally watch them right before the exams. They really give clear insight of each topic :)
+Tiia Tolonen thank you Tiia, what a lovely comment!! :)
Thank you so much for explaining things so clearly in these lectures, I have a much better understanding now for my EU exam because of you!
such a great video. makes me happy to see nice people explaining something in their own words and not reading a text! subscribed and liked!!! Greetings from Maastricht
Thank you so generous of you to give your time and expertise to help us
Thank you very much for this great content! I have to write an essay on this topic and now I feel like I am going in the right direction. Cheers
This lecture just saved my bacon!! clear, concise and easy to understand, thank you Marcus.
What a great bloke, cheers man
+Joshua Funnell No worries dude ✌
Thank you so much, very helpful for revision!
Hi Marcus. Thanks for your hard work as always. I note you mentioned there are a few ways to work on a topic of democratic deficit. Would you mind sharing a few words about what the other approaches are?
very informative, thank you!
Thank you for this amazing video!! Though I have a question that I hope you could kindly answer- at 10:57 you mentioned that the Council plays an executive role in initiating legislations alongside the Commission, can you please explain in what way? As I believe that the Commission is the only body that can initiate legislations, so how is the Council’s executive role reflected?
Omg! Literally the best video on you tube this helped me soooooo much. Thank you for uploading this :D
+Fazremixs haha thanks very much!!
I have an essay on ‘the nature of the E.U. Parliaments limited power + and if that means the EU can never achieve ‘democratic legitimacy’ and this video really helped me structure my essay plan + topics for reading list. Plus the inspiration to listen to Unknown Pleasures again haha. Thank you :)
Hey, it would be really great if you could also please provide the sources you used to obtain information for this topic/lecture. So the books, articles, websites you used? Thank you! And btw, amazing video and channel!
Thank you! Craig & De Burca is the best textbook on EU law and that's my core resource. There are also a range of articles written about this across the Internet but I really like the booklet put together by the Electoral Reform Society:www.electoral-reform.org.uk/sites/default/files/Tackling-Europes-democratic-deficit.pdf
well detailed and easy to understand :)
Thank you mate, great stuff
Thank you! This was very helpful!!
Keep the videos coming!
Any chance of you covering constitutional pluralism and monism? I've been watching your vids for my third year now of uni and would love for you to do this. Got an essay coming up so any help would be appreciated! :)
Thanks you for this video! Brilliant!
+Mighty Mouse Cheers, thanks for the support! :)
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Since the EU has come under so much criticism in the last years and thus has gained more attention by the populaiton, i expect that there will be larger voter turnout in the next EU parliament election. But we'll see.
At least i myself have become more interested in the EU after the Brexit referendum in the UK and all the media attention it generated. I'm from Germany though.
Thanks for this video series on EU law by the way. It's very educational.
helpful for my politics revision!!!
Thanks Marcus. You have been a real help with my exams so thanks very much for the videos - they have really helped - you are a great lecturer. And a Joy Division fan also!!! Brilliant.
+Sharon Sharon Haha who isn't a fan of Joy Division?? Although the lines on the shirt may have confused my camera. Did you catch the video on Art 20 as well?
+marcuscleaver yeah the Article 20 video was exactly what I needed. Going to keep watching these even after exam as they are really informative and well explained.
(I have the same t-shirt 😄)
My question was about how democratic the EU framework for competences is 😭 - this was helpful even in the first minute - thank you!
Do u go to liverpool lool
Thankyou Sir sterling work
Really helpful video! If anyone sees this comment, can you tell me if you think it's worth mentioning the European Council in an essay concerning how democratic the EU's political system is?
Absolutely. On the one hand it is an effective way to make sure that the government of each state is represented but there is always the problem that this is not a directly elected body.
@@marcuscleaver Great thank you very much for the response and video - very informative and really helped me get a grasp on the topic!!
Marcus to the rescue once again🔥
with the european council, do you mean so say council of ministers?
What order do I watch this playlist on EU law in?
digging the T-shirt
Interesting video.
Please can you do one on Social Policy and Art 157, I'm totally lost from the confusing way they gave it to us and I have an exam coming up.
+Tyra Audrie MChinjx It's in the pipeline. When is your exam?
+marcuscleaver on Tuesday. do you do private tutoring
+Tyra Audrie MChinjx Tuesday?! Message me on my UA-cam channel with the key areas you're struggling with and I'll try to put something together for you.
+marcuscleaver how do I do it sorry? its just the sex discrimination and other discrimination coming under Social policy... when I have two questions with nearly similar facts and one is discrimination and the other is not...im just lost on the reasoning behind it.
Hi
How can I use this for references
People tend to criticise the European Union for the lack of Democracy. I will not debate this question on an absolute political or ideological reference, because Democracy has a huge variety of combinations and degrees, since the Athenian version wherein the citizens, and only the citizens, voted directly on each executive measure to take, till the far-fetched representative Democracy in which people vote by double-proxy, like in the USA for example. In the USA, the citizens vote on electors from an electoral college, said members of this college voting then again to elect the president, said president then deciding later the executive measures to take. Hence, in the USA, the citizens decide on the measures to take, by double-proxy in chain. In many other democratic nations with two chambers, a similar double-proxy process is used to elect the members of the high chamber, like the Senate in the USA, Brazil ou Italy, or the House of Lords in the UK. And many of those who criticise the European Union for lack of Democracy, do not dare to say that the USA or the UK are not democratic. It is obvious that the European Union needs more patriotic feelings and a bit more of propaganda, exactly like the USA does with Hollywood. Just this can explain this enormous paradox on the public opinion, when one objectively compares the democratic instituions in the EU and in the USA.
Therefore, regarding Representative Democracy in the EU, it is relevant to say the following: the EU has three main institutions, the Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and all of them are as democratic, directly or indirectly, as any other democratic institution in any developed nation, like in the UK for example. European citizens vote directly for the European Parliament to elect its members (that's how Nigel Farage appeared there, for instance). As with respect to the members of the European Commission, they are appointed by the members of the European Parliament, exactly like any other parliament appoints the member of the corresponding government. Regarding the European Council, it is formed by the democratically elected national governments of the member states, being one nation equivalent to one vote, and therefore in the Council the vote of Malta has the same value as the vote of France. In the UK, for example, people do not vote directly for the government (nor the queen by the way); the British voters vote for their parliament, whose members later on appoint the government. Exactly as the European Parliament does with the European Commission. The obvious conclusion, I would say, is that the European Union needs not more democracy, she needs more marketing!
Unknown pleasure fair enough
can you talk about the reason why EU is said to be a democratic deficit?
i love you marcus, please be my lecturer
Suspect times to publish helper lecturers on the EU: After the annual exam period BUT two weeks before a referendum.