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Is democratic transnational sovereignty possible? An analysis of sovereignty in the context of EU integration
This paper examines how the Eurozone financial crisis
of 2011 impacted the possibility of the future of
European integration. It examines the reactions of
Europe’s political elites to the crisis through the
lens of Jürgen Habermas’s philosophical work on the
subject of transnational democratic sovereignty.
More often that not decisions made in Brussels have
been made on the basis of the national interest of
member states and conducted in a highly
undemocratic fashion. This has provoked a backlash
in many member states by people unhappy with the
constant lack of consultation on crucial matters,
leading to fears that the world’s first transnational
democracy may in fact be giving way to the first
‘post-democratic’ form of political union.