Democracy in the European Union as an ideology of the local social and political development: contradictions and problems
Based on a system, structural and functional and discourse analysis in this article an author analyzes not only the action levels of the EU democracy, but also those of its crises states, which are generated by challenges and threats as of world globalization as the European integration itself. The authors accents attention to globalization and integration trends in the text not accidental, because this indicates of the influence on a democratic process in the EU of an inequality of various European regions and countries socio-economic development. The EU Member States, structure of which claim to the role of the symbol of the highest achievements of a democratic Europe are as an object of the article, a subject of the article is a functional place of democratic institutions in a domestic and foreign policy of the European Union, the purpose is identification of the contradictory development of the EU democracy.