Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237876 
Title (translated): 
Sovereignty and responsibility in a multilevel system: Subsidiarity as the guiding principle?
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Wirtschaftsdienst [ISSN:] 1613-978X [Volume:] 101 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 439-445
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Der Subsidiaritätsgedanke sollte von den politischen Entscheidungstragenden sowie von im europäischen Mehrebenensystem mitwirkenden Akteur:innen beachtet werden. Dazu gehört die Beachtung bei der legislativen Planung, dass die Einhaltung des Subsidiaritätsprinzips bedingungslose Voraussetzung ist. Zudem sollten alle an der europapolitischen Willensbildung Beteiligten für die Wahrung des Subsidiaritätsprinzips eintreten, wenn hieran Zweifel bestehen. Die Debatte um Anspruch und Wirklichkeit des europäischen Subsidiaritätsgedankens begleitet uns seit vielen Jahren, ist aber aktueller denn je.
Abstract (Translated): 
In the German political debate, the principle of subsidiarity plays an important role in the acceptance of the European multilevel system. In such a system, there is a collision of historically diverging, systematically inconsistent and qualitatively different needs. This combination demands an 'active subsidiarity' and a 'subsidiarity routine' in order to dynamically shape the heterogeneous EU. This way, we may find a balance between the needs of the citizens (acceptancy), the EU institutions (efficiency) as well as of the different levels of decision making and acting (reason for being). Above all, subsidiarity must start at home, it can be strengthened in the EU if it does not erode in the member states. This challenge has been regularly neglected til now.
JEL: 
H77
K40
N44
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Document Type: 
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