nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160630-105753 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160630s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160630-105753 doi eng 342 23 Komárek, Jan Author aut Populists chairing the European Commission and Parliament Komárek, Jan Verfassungsblog 2016-06-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier No, the title of this post does not refer to a dystopia to come after the next European elections in 2019. It refers to the two presidents of today – Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz. Now why can they be seen as populists in some plausible way? In my view, this is because of the way in which they see politics and the role of the “people” in it. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit Direct Democracy Parliamentary Sovereignty Populism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/populists-chairing-the-european-commission-and-parliament/ raw object