The European Union has always been recognized as suffering from democratic deficit and the standard of the European Union has been a controversial issue since the early 1990s. Therefore, Lisbon Treaty was lately implemented in order to improve the Union’s democracy. However, it is arguable that whether the Lisbon Treaty is effective enough to tackle the problem of democracy, which will be discussed in the following. In this essay, I will first define what is ‘democratic deficit’ and show the historical development of Lisbon Treaty, hence talking about the significant changes and problems of it. Furthermore, I will make a comparison between the before and after implementation of the Treaty in order to check the effectiveness of such treaty.
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Another function for the parliament is to make approval on the EU in alliance with the Council . For the European Council, despite the fact that it is not the main role without any new power, the Lisbon Treaty still recognizes it as an EU institution. After the Treaty was enforced, the European Council is directed by a president which can enhance the European Council’s role as an agenda-setter of the EU . Moving on to the Council of the EU, notwithstanding the alteration in regard to the majority voting and the making of decisions, they did not provide adequate and compelling remedies towards the control of the democratic decision making by a constitutional organ. Furthermore, it is important to know that only European Commission is capable to draft legislative proposals, which leads to a ‘democratic deficit’ problem towards the drafting as Lisbon Treaty did not propose any key alteration towards the ‘democratic deficit’ as to the Commission’s structure, functioning or powers …show more content…
The Council has a significant change on the amendment of qualified majority voting (QMV), hence laws can be develop more easily without the unanimity consensus. Also, after abrogating the three-pillar structure of the EU, the QMV has to deal with the decisions on justice and home affairs policy. Gaining legal personality is another change after the Lisbon Treaty as EU is now able to sign up the European Convention on Human Rights. Despite the changes, the Lisbon Treaty set up a scope for the EU and members States to comply with on what they are responsible for and
Another function for the parliament is to make approval on the EU in alliance with the Council . For the European Council, despite the fact that it is not the main role without any new power, the Lisbon Treaty still recognizes it as an EU institution. After the Treaty was enforced, the European Council is directed by a president which can enhance the European Council’s role as an agenda-setter of the EU . Moving on to the Council of the EU, notwithstanding the alteration in regard to the majority voting and the making of decisions, they did not provide adequate and compelling remedies towards the control of the democratic decision making by a constitutional organ. Furthermore, it is important to know that only European Commission is capable to draft legislative proposals, which leads to a ‘democratic deficit’ problem towards the drafting as Lisbon Treaty did not propose any key alteration towards the ‘democratic deficit’ as to the Commission’s structure, functioning or powers …show more content…
The Council has a significant change on the amendment of qualified majority voting (QMV), hence laws can be develop more easily without the unanimity consensus. Also, after abrogating the three-pillar structure of the EU, the QMV has to deal with the decisions on justice and home affairs policy. Gaining legal personality is another change after the Lisbon Treaty as EU is now able to sign up the European Convention on Human Rights. Despite the changes, the Lisbon Treaty set up a scope for the EU and members States to comply with on what they are responsible for and