nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191225-173718-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191225s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191225-173718-0 doi eng 342 23 van Elsuwege, Peter Author aut A Matter of Representative Democracy in the European Union The Catalan Question before the Court of Justice van Elsuwege, Peter Verfassungsblog 2019-12-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With its judgment in the Junqueras case, the Court adopted a functional approach to the election procedure of the European Parliament, proceeding from the principle of representative democracy as one of the core values in the EU legal order. In particular, the Court stressed the need to ensure that the composition of the European Parliament fully reflects the free choice of the Union’s citizens, by direct universal suffrage. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Catalonia European Parliament Oriol Junqueras Representative Democracy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-matter-of-representative-democracy-in-the-european-union/ raw object