Tuesday 19 June 2007

Policy Paper (EUI) on European referendum

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI of Florence) has just published a Policy Paper on the European referendum.

The full text (77 pages, mainly in French) is available at the link: http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/ (see the news on the right).

Also a shorter version in English, on the main issues discussed, will be provided for some academic lectures in Autumn.

The Paper is collecting the proceedings of a seminar organized at the EUI, the last 9th of February.

Among the interesting contributions in the Paper, for those who understand French, I suggest the following ones: at pages 14-15, Peter Altmaier (Secretary of State and president of Europa Union Deutschland) and at pp. 56-61 the conclusions of professor Jacques Ziller (main author of the "simplified treaty" presented few days ago as the results of "Amato's Group").

In the last paragraph professor Ziller suggests to the federalists, promoting the campaign for an
European referendum, to support the idea to have a kind of "enhanced cooperation" in the next ratification phase. This is mainly meant to avoid the national procedures of ratification.

This Paper gives more legitimacy to European referendum campaign giving the legal foundations of the European referendum campaign.

The rumours about the decisions which will taken by the European Council, next week, are not positive, not at all. Apparently the governments are not considering a transparent and ambitious procedure for relaunching the Constitution as their priority. All kind of initiatives favouring the citizen's involvement in the constitutional process will be necessary in the next future. An important challenge for all of us.

Source: Samuele Pii

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