On the Relevance of Subsidiarity in Hungary

Abstract

The Treaty on the European Union brought the principle of subsidiarity into the spotlight on the European scenes. The concept of subsidiarity is used broadly to include an examination of the kind of institutional rearrangement that the EU is trying to define for itself, and to restructure the federal balance between the Union, the member states, and the regions. Four deficits (capacity, policy, implementation and democracy) of the present institutional setup are reviewed in order to determine what kind of innovative arrangements need to be designed to enable the EU to face the challenges of the next decade.