Legitimation, Legitimität und europäische Menschenwürde

This work provides an interdisciplinary approach with the aim of supporting European legitimacy during the ongoing process of European integration. From a legal perspective, it analyses the concept of output legitimacy, borrowed from the field of political science, and contrasts it with the rule of law. The genuine European subjective rights, then, constitute the foundation of European legitimacy by rule of law. This work concludes by offering a theoretical development of the European integration process – how long will European legitimacy last? To provide for this event of its end, a right to European democracy is deduced on the basis of the European ideal of human dignity.