The EU’s legitimacy problem has two different aspects: apathy, leading to a low turnout in the European parliamentary elections, and outright euro-skepticism. The voter-turnout problem partly reflects frustration about the present state of the EU, and also people’s impression that they can exert little influence by voting one way or the other.
毫无疑问，欧盟一直被其和合法性问题困扰着，而此问题则来自两方面：首先是人们的漠视，这导致了欧洲议会选举低下的投票率，还有就是那些彻底反对欧盟和欧元的怀疑论调。低投票率在某个侧面体现了民众对欧盟目前状况的挫折感，在他们看来无论选谁，自己这一票都微不足道。