{"id":1955,"date":"2010-07-10T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:18:56","slug":"european-civil-society-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/en\/the-european-civil-society-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Civil Society Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Democratic deficit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s soft spot is that its institutions are not thoroughly transparent and lack the\u00a0democratic social legitimacy. The democratic deficit during the 90\u2019s was constantly\u00a0growing. The consensus that was symptomatic of the integration-orientated elite has been \u00a0drained after the war. This consensus played a noteworthy role in the regular and effective\u00a0co-operation of the Western-European governments and societies. Nevertheless, this is\u00a0no longer cogent in the process of the post Cold War Eastern enlargement.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting the situation after Nice, Director of the European Policy Centre John\u00a0Palmer mentions a growing turmoil and doubt in connection with \u201ethe fundamental aims\u00a0of the European integration\u201d.1 Palmer comes to the conclusion that the Future of Europe\u00a0debate \u2013 owing to the uncertainties around the fundamental aims \u2013 cannot mobilize a\u00a0critical social mass. This standpoint is also underpinned by the public opinion polls\u00a0(Eurobarometer), the fairly social echoless of the Convention and the aloof tendencies of\u00a0the Western-European political arena. One should not be surprised. After the failure of\u00a0Maastricht that tried to create the polity from above, the Amsterdam and Nice Treaties\u00a0attempted to implement long-term reforms in order to reach a \u201ea civic engagement to the\u00a0broader political community or the creation of a normative order that is maintained by\u00a0the independent source of the input-orientated legitimacy\u201d2. These forced attempts from\u00a0above to create a common identity or the public apprehension of public good have been\u00a0regularly flopped. As Chryssochoou neatly indites \u201eAmsterdam failed to incorporate any\u00a0substantive civic rights in a formal \u2018constitutional\u2019 document addressed to the citizen\u00a0directly, thus reflecting the insistence of sovereignty conscious states on codifying existing\u00a0trends in both jurisprudence and legislation\u201d3. In other words: the unkind national\u00a0interests shadow the broader vision. Amsterdam and Nice \u2013 adjusted into the European\u00a0Communities and to the Union\u2019s development history -were under the necessity of\u00a0creating and\/or addressing the political community \u2013 in spite of it, policies were produced\u00a0and developed.<\/p>\n<p>Chryssochoou\u2019s critique of European elites \u2013 in accordance with the tenet of numerous European social scientists \u2013, that primarily enhances the self-echo, sharply conceives the gist of the problem: \u201e The significance of tying the self-image of the elites to the dialectic between citizenship and demos-formation is that no common civic identity may come into being unless all major actors engaged in European governance see themselves as part of a polity-building exercise that has to evolve from lower level \u2018upwards\u2019. Likewise, a transnational political space must be built up up in the everyday networks of civic engagement, instead of being constructed from the top down\u201d.4<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ises.hu\/webimages\/The_European_Civil_Society_Discourse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Social and European Studies website.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic deficit The EU\u2019s soft spot is that its institutions are not thoroughly transparent and lack the\u00a0democratic social legitimacy. The democratic deficit during the 90\u2019s was constantly\u00a0growing. The consensus that was symptomatic of the integration-orientated elite has been \u00a0drained after the war. 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