THE CURRENT CRISIS OF EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE AND CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

The events of recent years have generated discussions and controversies at national and European levels on the path on which society is going, from optimistic to pessimistic perspectives, democracy seems to be under siege, and defining models of good practices becomes impossible, although necessary for the permanent effort/dynamics of democratization. In this context of uncertainty, the relationship between the quality of democracy and governance becomes a vital link, the alteration, or crises of one generating effects on the other. Thus, several legitimate questions arise about the causality in generating these governance and democracy crises and how they influence each other positively or negatively