When Failure Succeeds and Success Fails - A Reality Check on the European Citizens' Initiative Alemanno, Alberto Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-06-19 eng
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 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 Alemanno, Alberto democracy ECJ EU EU citizenship European Citizens Initiative 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/european-citizens-initiative/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/138199162e4b6987 250619 10.59704/138199162e4b6987 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)