Could the Lisbon Treaty bring the EU and its institutions closer towards democracy and reduce the democratic deficit?

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, , course: European Integration, language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to look at the democratic deficit from different perspectives and find out if the last treaty of the EU, the Lisbon Treaty, could bring the EU and its institutions closer towards democracy and eliminate or at le...