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While the EU has been a driving force for the expansion of civil liberties, political rights and human rights, making Europe the most democratic continent in the world, democracy is in crisis within nation states because of the very nature of European integration that structurally relies more on output than input democracy (discussed below). The European crisis of efficiency in the course of and the aftermath of the “great recession” has logically turned into a crisis of trust with respect to the European project itself that must be fixed if Europeans want to curb the rise of anti-EU populism.
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Le Cacheux, J., Laurent, E. (2015). The Democratic Paradox of the EU. In: Report on the State of the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137451088_2
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