El proceso de construcción de la Unión Europea: el desafío de los populismos

Abstract

The EU has presented itself as the promoter and advocate for policies related to the development of democracy, human rights protection, and integration and solidarity between regions and states. This consensus through rational policies and “cooperation” within a logic of “soft power”. However, the EU seems not to have been able to manage socio-political credibility: a) deficiencies in shaping a common identity and citizenship links b) inability to make an attitude and message the distance itself hegemonic neoliberal policy; c) when ineffectiveness shape and communicate the principles that were established by the Lisbon Treaty, and that in the current context appear to be formulated in a paradoxical way, his actions are perceived as delegitimized, both the process and the outcome. Based on this reflection, our study will approach several phenomena that have emerged so connected within the Union: the rise of democratic criticism, reflection on the normative sense of the Union, and populism. What do you suppose these reflections for the EU?, Why democracy?, Are the result of a cyclical discomfort or this policy arises from a deficit in the development of the Union?