Out of time? The democratic limits of EU demoicracy
本文考察了欧盟民主的规范性概念，指出其核心原则和制度无法长期满足民主期望，并建议探索日落立法等更具创意的制度选项。
The article investigates normative conceptions of EU demoicracy, which take the state of European Union (EU) integration for granted. It is shown that neither their advanced normative principles nor the core institutions can survive scrutiny of internal consistency and coherence: they cannot satisfy democratic aspirations over time. Beyond a reformulation of core normative principles, conceptions of EU demoicracy should explore more creative institutional options for the EU, such as sunset legislation for EU law and a collective facultative waiver for national parliaments in the realm of EU secondary law.