Gratian Mihailescu
August 2014

The 
deficit 
of
 democracy: Why
 subsidiarity
 will
 not 
function
 in 
Romania

The
 European
 Commission
 is
 highlighting
 the
 importance
 of
 bottom‐up
 governance
 in
 decision‐making
 process
 and
 subsidiarity
 principle 
is
 one
 of
 the
 central
 principles
 of
 EU 
which 
states 
that 
EU
 policy
 decisions 
should
 always
 be
 made
 as
 close
 to
 the
citizens. 
Is
 the 
basic
 principle 
of
 the 
EU 
and appears
 in
 the
 latest
 EU
 treaty
 stipulated
 over
 30
 times. Unfortunately
 for
 Romania
 subsidiarity
 principle
 will
 be 
hard
 to
 be 
put
 in
 practice.