Tag: Cristina Ares Castro-Conde

The best of Democratic Audit’s 2015 coverage of the European Union

The best of Democratic Audit’s 2015 coverage of the European Union

As always, this year has been an eventful one on the continent, with the Brexit referendum on the horizon and political clashes over the terms of the UK’s membership, as well as a migrant crisis and the Greek crisis. Here, we round up 10 of the best articles on Democratic Audit which focus on the European […]

The Greek crisis should be the spur for the creation of a better European democracy

The Greek crisis should be the spur for the creation of a better European democracy

Does the Greek crisis prove the limitations of European integration? Cristina Ares Castro-Conde writes that the real question facing Europe is not whether integration should be rolled back, but how European democracy can be improved. She suggests that a first step could be to create a parallel European Parliament composed of MEPs from Eurozone states […]