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The Euro area debt crisis has not only economic but also political consequences, since it has caused the on-going debates about the extent to which the European Union (EU) political structure is democratic to be more heated, and consequently called the institutional structure of the European Union into question  Dr., Hazine Müsteşarlığı. Makalede ifade edilen görüşler yazarın değerlendirmeleri olup, görev yaptığı kurumla ilişkilendirilemez, e-posta:[email protected] again. After the crisis broke out, initiatives taken inside and outside the European Union to cope with the effects of the Euro area debt crisis have bestowed a greater role in surveillance of national economic and financial policies on the European Commission. On the economic side, these initiatives which increase powers of the EU’s unelected government may be justified; but on the political side the Commission’s role in the new European economic governance should be paid more attention from the perspective of democracy, since the legitimacy and political accountability of the Commission have always been controversial issues. The aim of this article is to shed some light on the extent to which the European Commission is democratically legitimate and politically accountable and also to clarify why the Euro area debt crisis has caused the on-going debates about democracy at EU level to be more heated.

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