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European Citizens’ Initiatives, Greek Debt and Court of Justice: The Final Chapter
... civil society. Many different solutions have been tabled to alleviate the pressure of the Greek debt. In particular, a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled “One Million of Signatures for a Europe of ...
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Strengthening the Political Rights of the EU Citizens in the Framework of the European Citizens' Initiative: Brief Analyse of Certain Citizens’ Initiatives
... the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), as one of the major innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon, represents the first supranational instrument of direct democracy that took effect on April 1, 2012, ...
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Positioning Efler in the Current Narrative of European Citizens’ Initiatives
... A BSTRACT : Efler (General Court, judgment of 10 May 2017, case T-754/14, Efler et al. v. Commission) is the last in a stream of cases dealing with the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). This Insight ...
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The European Citizens’ Initiative in Times of Brexit
... the European citizens’ initiative, as a tool of participatory democracy and EU citizenship, has the potential to reinforce the legitimacy of the political agenda and strengthen the active participation of ...
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The European Citizens’ Initiative in Light of the European Debt Crisis: A Gateway Between International Law and the EU Legal System
... A BSTRACT : This Article first briefly examines the attempt made by both Member States and EU insti- tutions to administer financial assistance to countries experiencing economic difficulties. The anal- ysis will ...
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Which characteristics are associated to the level of european identity among european citizens?
... of European Identity lead to a “ceiling-effect” and that their cross-border experience cannot increase European Identity anymore due to that ...of European Identity than their fellows deciding ...
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Democratic legitimacy and the European Citizens' Initiative: a recipe for disappointment and disaffection?
... the European Public Services Union (EPSU), a confederation of trade unions throughout Europe and the citizens’ committee was comprised of representatives of water unions from the EU member states (WATER is ...
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"The Devil is in the Demos: The Identification of European Citizens with Europe"
... 136 European officials have long struggled with a solution for turning ordinary peoples of Europe into ...their European identity” and that it is necessary to “[stimulate] public interest in the ...
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Making the EU more democratic? Prospects of the European citizens’ initiative
... It becomes clear from the preceding sections that the ECI will mostly allow European (networks of) interest organizations to direct their demands to the Commission. One major advantage from the viewpoint of ...
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The European Citizens’ Initiative: A Solution to the Democratic Deficit?
... that citizens are having difficulties with this model of direct democracy and that given the opportunity a large majority of 61% indicates that it would not use ...three citizens initiatives that were ...
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Strengthening democracy in the EC. Europe on the Move, 1993
... The Treaty on European Union, signed at forced through the introduction in 1979 of the direct election by voters Maastricht on 7 February 1992, gives all European citizens the same right[r] ...
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Strengthening democracy in the EC. Europe on the move 1991
... The Treaty on European Union, signed at forced through the introduction in 1979 of the direct election by voters Maastricht on 7 February 1992, gives all European citizens the same right[r] ...
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Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Institutional Affairs on the European Parliament's position Concerning the reform of the Treaties and the achievement of the European Union, A Motion for a Resolution Working Documents 1982 1983, Document 1 305/82/A, 21 June 1982/A
... B aware that the pglitical, social and institutional development of the European Community falls far short of meeting the needs and the aspirations of European citizens, convinced that, [r] ...
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Citizens Signpost Service activity report 2002-2003
... the European Commission Internal Market DG's external communication ...by European citizens when they exercise their rights within the internal ...how European legislation is actually ...
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Redistribution in Whose Favor? Preferences with Regard to Nationality and Type of Beneficiaries
... (Swiss, citizens of western European countries, citizens of other countries) as well as their types (old-age pensioners, people with ill health, the unemployed, working poor, and families with ...
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Citizens’ knowledge about the EU Spitzenkandidaten for the 2014 European elections
... The introduction of EU-Spitzenkandidaten did not occur out of the blue. There have been many discussions among scholars about the necessity to stronger involve the public by having an open contest for the post of the ...
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System composite of the triplet’s of strategic overview – revised fundamentals
... following: European Union (UE) – State Members (SM) – European Citizens (ECz); European parliament will (PW) – national commitment (NC) – personal desire (PD); sustainable development(SD) - ...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around “Race”
... Needless to say, the matter did not end there and, in due course, the alle- gorical figure of the Polish Plumber crossed the English Channel. During the entire period from the formal “accession” of the eight ...
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The will of the people? The erosion of democracy under the rule of law in Europe = De wil van het volk? Erosie van de democratische rechtsstaat in Europa
... countries’. Citizens in countries such as Hungary, Poland, the Russian Federation and Turkey have placed their trust in parties and movements that regard pluralist democracy under the rule of law as an obstacle to ...
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Third report from the Commission on the citizenship of the Union. COM (2001) 506 final, 7 September 2001
... the European Community and grouped under Chapter V on citizens’ rights: the right to vote and stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament (Article 39); the right to vote and stand as ...
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