“民主赤字”、身份困境与欧债危机

Democratic Deficit,Identity Dilemma and European Debt Crisis

自20世纪70年代末以来,欧盟的民主合法性问题一直广受诟病。从"身份"理论视角来看,欧盟"民主赤字"问题的实质是欧盟的身份困境。欧盟在一体化过程中实现了对传统民族国家和国家主权的超越,并逐步形成了一种超国家、后主权的多层民主治理模式。欧债危机的爆发带来的启示在于,进一步完善欧盟独特的治理结构,而不是单纯致力于推进民主化,才是欧盟解决身份定位和民主发展问题的根本。

Various arguments have emerged about the EU's ' democratic deficit' ever since the end of the 1970s.However,if we look at it in light of the identity issue,we will find that the key to the ' democratic deficit' lies in the EU's identity dilemma.In the process of integration,the EU has established a new governance model characterized by supranational and post-sovereign multi-level democracy which has transcended the traditional nation state and state sovereignty.What the EU should learn from the present debt crisis is that the fundamental solution to its identity dilemma and democratic deficit is to improve its unique governance structure rather than to simply push for further democratization.