AB'de demokratik eksiklik sorunu : taslak anayasal antlaşma çerçevesinde ortak dış ve güvenlik politikası ve Avrupa Parlamentosu ilişkileri örnek incelemesi

Discussions on democratic deficit in the European Union continue. The Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) was a good occasion for the European Union to handle this issue. However, it yielded no results so far. Recent IGC discussions that were unsuccessfully completed last December demonstrate that the neither the EU states, nor the EU Commission remains ready to show the necessary political determination yet to further the integration process and resolve the problematic issues in terms of democratic deficit. In addition, the first draft of the EU Constitutional Treaty also lacks clauses on the alleviation of democratic deficit within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, as well as the European Security and Defense Policy. In this context, this article argues that overcoming the democratic deficit problem in the EU is a political matter and requires strong political determination.