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European Citizens… Mind the Gap! Some Reflections on Participatory Democracy in the EU
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... channels for citizen and civil society participation in the EU. It attempts to critically contrast and compare formal participatory tools, i.e. those provided for in the Treaties or regulated by secondary ...
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The scrutiny of the principle of subsidiarity by autonomous regional parliaments with particular reference to the participation of the Parliament of Catalonia in the early warning system
(Esther Martín Núñez/Essay)
(Esther Martín Núñez/Essay)
... weeks, a report on compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. The majority of regional parliaments have also carried out normative reforms to regulate the procedure of participation in the early warning ...
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Globalization and Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
This paper aims to analyse a specific dimension of the progressive transformation of the territorial/nation-state law by using the particular lens of cross-border cooperation as regulated under EU law. ...
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A First Important Experience in Participatory Democracy in Italy: Region of Tuscany Law No. 69 of 27 December 2007
(Cecilia Corsi/Essay)
(Cecilia Corsi/Essay)
... regional and local policies.” The law regulates two principal typologies of participatory processes, namely: 1) public debate; 2) the Region’s support for such processes. In order to guide and manage these ...
... arising from a direct popular initiative or a PLI rejected by Parliament. The Autonomous Communities have regulated PLIs with the same reluctance as they have had regulating the Constitution and the Organic ...