"democracia representativa" in English

The functioning of the Union shall be founded on representative democracy.

The EU operates as a representative democracy, in line with the Treaty of Lisbon.

Until now, the European construct was based on representative democracy.

Open government is essential in a representative democracy.

By the way, Britain is probably the country that has done most for representative democracy.

European democracy is genuinely representative democracy.

I advocate compromise, an approach that has long been adopted by this House.

A perfectly legitimate way of making decisions in a democracy is by representative democracy.

Our work is not based only on representative democracy - it is also based on participatory democracy.

Mr President, the foundation of the EU rests on the principle of representative democracy.

They can only flourish if Parliament controls the sovereign's expenditure.

That is a strange idea of representative democracy passed on with the complicity of the media.

I believe that the attempt to devalue parliamentary ratification does no credit to representative democracy.

I remain a supporter of representative democracy.

Let the representative democracy do its work!

We are at last getting a representative and participative democracy with the corresponding Citizens' Initiative.

It remains our objective to strengthen the legitimacy of this House and thus to consolidate representative democracy.

The principle of representative democracy

Indeed, that is where representative democracy comes into its own. That is the case nationally and even much more so at European level.

There is a second point that I should like to touch on because I am a dyed-in-the-wool supporter of representative democracy.