Direct Democracy in the EU

The European Union maintains a tense and largely unresolved relationship to direct democracy. Banning it to the periphery, where it can only harm the integration and enlargement process, she largely ignores it in her own legal system, where it could create the lacking legitimacy.

EU-referendum

Legal, political and technical problems of an EU-wide referendum: processes, majorities, implementation problems in member states.

project leader: Fernando Mendez

European citizens’ initiatives

With the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a new and uniquely conceived instrument of direct democracy was put into the spotlight.

project leader: Fernando Mendez