Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit," Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the

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This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is deriv