After World war two some European countries (Italy, Germany, France and the Benelux) in order to avoid new conflict started a process of economical integration that led nowadays to the E.U. . Looking back at the history of the E.U. there are some stages of the development that can be taken as the most important for our discussion:

the Treaty of Paris in 1951 that create the European Coal and Steel Community which put under a common authority the production of iron steel and coal, in 1957 the Treaty of Rome set up Euratom and the European Economic Community that had to aim a common policy of development in the field of nuclear industry and a "common market" for goods within the Member States, in 1976 with a single Act the Member States provided the legal base for direct election to the European Parliament (Philip Norton, 5,1996), in 1985 was set up a schedule to follow in order to achieve a complete single market by the 1992 this Paper included common environmental policy, health and safety policy, economic and social cohesion policy, areas not included in the EEC treaty, the 7th February 1992 the Treaty on the European Union was signed in Maastricht , t

of Regions gives European regional administrative bodies the right to hearing on certain topics but effectively the only advantage for those national institutions is economical since there are closer links with Brussels. As we can see the structure of the E.U. has just the appearance of a democratic structure and the democratic deficit is massive (Bill Cash, The Irish Time,1,1996). Individual national Parliaments should debate about the role towards the E.P. since there is a non democratic replacement in the hole left by the E.P. in the different countries. The national Parliaments when it comes to ratification of treaty can only say yes or no that can be considered as a democratic control. An issue that create more problem to the process of democratisation of the E.U is the use of the media made by the politicians in a way that to preserve the secret on certain kind of matters like defence, internal security, immigration drugs terrorism, the process of transparency will be obstructed. The presence of the lobbies, industrial, lobby connected to environmental organisation and churches is increasing year by year their target are mostly to influence the legislative process and the standardisation of the E.U. itself, the problem is that both the E.U. and those lobbies get benefit from each other for different reasons: the E.U. is helped in achieve its programmes and those lobbies can make in a certain measure fit the E.U. programmes with their programmes with a total absence of democratic control. The national Parliaments are totally out of this power game, not even treaty of Maastricht will lead to reduction of the democratic deficit, it has been given more power to the E.U. but on the other hand the control on it by the national Parliaments has not been increased and if it will E.U. lobbies are going to make sure that is going to take time. E.P. after Maastricht did not change so much as well in its prerogatives,

Concerning the E.P. it is not possible to talk about a real parliament, while the National Parliaments have all the requirements that such an institution needs to shape policy the European Parliaments is powerless, the Commissioners that form the executive of the E.U. are appointed by the n

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