Crisis of democratic legitimacy of the decision-making process of the Union and the role of the European Parliament

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the related issues and open discussions relating to the proposal to recognize the power/legislative right for requesting initiative in the European Parliament. The crisis of legitimacy of the Union has been noticed for some time and the requests for strengthening the decision-making process in a more democratic way by acting on the so-called legitimacy input needs an intervention on the agenda setter function but also through the related tools of democracy that we already know: citizens' initiative, petitions. We need a synergistic, analogue relationship between the institutions involved in the legislative decision-making sector but above all the spirit of the integrative history of the Union, the Treaties on the Union and representative and the participatory democracy as fundamental rights of the future of the EU.