Jürgen Habermas: "Democracy in Europe" (2014)
Holberg Prize Talks
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The Third Deficit of the European Parliament
Grinn: Remoteness of European Parliament from the citizens whose interests it is supposed to represent. According to Grinn, strengthening the Parliament though in itself necessary cannot solve the problem as long as communication networks are lacking. "The European parties would have to organize and conduct election campaigns that are recognizably different in teams and personnel from national elections," he says.
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