Democracy as a Common Value of the European Union and its Member States
Despite the fact that Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union contains a catalogue of values on which the European Union is built and which are common to the European Union and its Member States, in recent years the focus seems to have been solely on the rule of law. However, democracy as a value of the European Union is all the more significant because the European Union has long been accused of a so-called "democratic deficit". The focus of the section can be divided into three main groups: the fulfilment and protection of democracy within the institutional framework of the European Union, the protection of the value of democracy in relation to the Member States and in the context of the accession process, and the promotion of the value of democracy in the international arena.
Guarantors of the section:
doc. JUDr. Ing. Ondrej Blažo, PhD.