-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …

As the EU enters a new political cycle, this article provides a critical analysis of the state of EU democracy by … focusing on its two main components: representative and participatory democracy through their theoretical and practical … realities. It argues that it is for EU democracy — and potentially for the Conference on the Future of Europe — to rethink its …

This paper provides a critical assessment of the realities of EU participatory democracy and offers a set of innovative … accountability deficit, it may compensate for that by making the system responsive to citizen-driven agenda-setting and monitoring …