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Implementing Lisbon: narrowing the EU's 'democratic deficit'?

Mar 09, 2010

Corina Stratulat

Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme

Janis A. Emmanouilidis

Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Studies

LISBON TREATY

Now the Lisbon Treaty has been in force for three months, this Policy Brief by Janis A. Emmanouilidis and Corina Stratulat assesses how far it can help to overcome the EU’s alleged democratic deficit.

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