MAGNETTE, Paul <br/><br/>
Conclusion :  diffuse democracy in the European Union: the pathologies of delegation 

 - Oxfordshire :  Routledge,  October 2003 
<br/><br/> As the EU is not a state, and not likely to become one in the foreseeable future, it cannot rely on classic institutional devices - parliamentary or presidential regimes - to curb its democratic deficit. The EU is characterized as a form of multi-level governance with diffuse mechanisms of democratic control. Such a process of democratization is nevertheless not efficient enough to be called democratic.