The European Union Law , The EU institutions
TALLINN UNIVERSITY
The Law School
Law
The European Union Law
The EU institutions
Lecturer: Matti Kauppi
Student: Viktoria Gratšjova
Tallinn, 2014
The institutions of the European Union form a complex and unique polity and, in determining
whether or not this structure and the law making powers granted to each respective institution
are inherently undemocratic, it is vital to define what is meant by the term ‘democratic’. In his
Gettysburg address Abraham Lincoln referred to a government which was ‘of the people, by