ELIAMEP’s Working Paper no 9, by Dr. Manos Papazoglou, argues that the concept of europeanisation in contemporary political discourse is often being understood mainly as a process of modernization. It is disregarded, however, that europeanisation presupposes the merger of the nations’ and the union’s institutional elements. To the degree that this merger is underestimated or … Continue reading Europeanisation and democratic deficits: the concept of “legitimization’s crisis”