Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,3, Queen's University Belfast (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy), language: English, abstract: This thesis analyses the European Parliament elections of 2014 through the lens of Niklas Luhmann's theory of legitimacy. These elections differed from earlier ones due to the introduction of Spitzenkandidaten, lead...