: the democratic secret of European legislation Rugge, Giacomo creator author text enk Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2025 monographic eng xviii, 229 pages ; 24 cm. The events of the last ten years have shaken the "permissive consensus" that kept the European integration process going for many years. 'Output democracy', as based on decisions presumably meeting the needs of the citizens, is no longer enough to obtain public support. Never before has a process-oriented approach to European democracy been more urgent. This book aims to address this urgency, by providing an account of the European legislative process that is less conventional and does justice to the democratic potential inherent in trilogues. In particular, this book provides: a comprehensive reconstruction of the workings of trilogues, relying on internal documents collected through a series of access to documents requests; gives meaning to the legal notion of informality, understood as one of the most defining, although elusive, features of trilogues; squares the practice of trilogues with the European democratic order of the Treaties, showing that such a practice is compatible with a model of 'negotiation democracy'. A historical reconstruction -- Setting the stage : the European institutional triangle -- Unpacking the law and practice of trilogues -- Trilogues : informality meets positive law -- Inter-chamber coordination in a comparative perspective -- Trilogues and European democracy. / Giacomo Rugge. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025). e------ Legislation European Union countries Democracy European Union countries KJE5349 .R84 2025 9781009445207 UkCbUP 230525 20251006121829.0 17615321 eng