How Democratic Is the EU?

As European integration has continued in recent decades, and power has shifted from member state governments to Brussels while support for populist parties campaigning on eurosceptic grounds has grown, the debate has only intensified.

Against this backdrop, the panellists will explore the relationship between the European Union and democracy. Does EU governance lack democratic legitimacy? If so, can this be remedied? Have efforts in Brussels to tackle perceptions of the EU as undemocratic, such as increasing the parliament’s powers, had any impact? And along what lines – geographic, pro-European and anti-European, left and right – can this debate be understood?