The volume at hand contains invited papers addressing the normative is- sues of democracy and the European Union. Most papers were fIrst discussed at the conference "Democracy and the European Union", held in Oslo on Au- gust 8-10, 1996, with the support of the Norwegian research programme Ad- vanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State (ARENA). The editors wish to thank the organisers and participants of the Oslo con- ference. They...