nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/138199162e4b6987 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250619s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/138199162e4b6987 doi eng 342 23 Alemanno, Alberto Author aut When Failure Succeeds and Success Fails - A Reality Check on the European Citizens' Initiative Alemanno, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2025-06-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Despite its modest uptake since its inception in 2012, the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) has become the subject of several cases before the Court of Justice of the EU. The ECI is the world's first and only instrument of direct transnational democracy, allowing a group of at least seven European citizens from seven different EU member states to request that the Union take new action. The growing legal challenges around successful but ineffective ECIs reflect a fundamental mismatch between constitutional recognition of participatory democracy and institutional realities. CC BY-SA 4.0 democracy ECJ EU EU citizenship European Citizens Initiative Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/european-citizens-initiative/ raw object