The European Citizens’ Initiative: Transnational Democracy in the EU at last?
The European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, in force since December 2009, introduced the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) as a means of strengthening citizen involvement in EU decision making. A minimum of one million citizens from at least seven of the EU’s current 27 member states can request that the...
Main Author: | Maximilian Conrad |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Iceland
2011-06-01
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Series: | Stjórnmál og Stjórnsýsla |
Online Access: | http://www.irpa.is/article/view/1113 |
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