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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2014  
         
  Article:   THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE AND THE VIRTUES OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN THE FORM OF E-DEMOCRACY / L’INITIATIVE CITOYENNE EUROPEENNE ET LES VERTUS DE LA DEMOCRATIE DIRECTE SOUS LA FORME DE L’E-DEMOCRATIE.

Authors:  RADU CARP .
 
       
         
  Abstract:   This article deals with a new mechanism of European governance: the European citizens’ initiative that gives to minimum 1 million EU citizens from at least 7 Member States the right to make normative acts proposals to the European Commission. This mechanism, which is an instrument of direct democracy, has been introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon and regulated subsequently by the Regulation no. 211/2011. The article makes a deep analysis of this Regulation provisions and also the content of the citizens’ initiatives that have been materialized so far. The number of these initiatives is remarkable high, despite the restrictive requirements for their registration but so far the European Commission was reluctant to promote them. If this mechanism will be successful, the e-democracy, as a form of direct democracy, could be a solution for expressing the will of more than 500 million EU citizens.

Keywords: European citizens’ initiative, Treaty of Lisbon, e-democracy, direct democracy
 
         
     
         
         
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