ABSTRACT
Responsibility and control require beforehand that one can identify those responsible for the decisions that one wishes to contest, and this is not easy in the Union. But the technique of consensus at all levels has the effect of masking the responsibilities of all parties. It dilutes responsibilities and can render the control exercised over the members of the Council by their respective parliaments – insofar as such control exists – ineffective. The entire decision-making process is largely out of the public eye, which leads to a lack of control and therefore difficulty in identifying the responsibility of each actor. Rather than an inappropriate transposition of national institutional models, the Union should be the object of a global vision that takes into account its own nature and emphasises the elements that will favour its political integration.
