Routledge Research in Constitutional Law The Accountability Gap in EU law, (Hardcover)

The book explores whether the EU is an accountable international organization and investigates whether any progress towards accountability and transparency has been made in the post-Lisbon era. It takes a holistic approach to the subject reviewing the overall decision-making process of the EU. Marios Costa argues that currently the main EU institutions and main delegators along with the Member States are not in a position to control the actions or omissions of the so called independent EU agencies, committees and bodies and that despite recent progress the EU needs to put forward an acceptable constitutional framework to ensure the accountability of these independent bodies.