Denkart Europa. Schriften zur europäischen Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur 25 Tony Venables Piecing together Europe s Citizenship Searching for Cinderella Nomos
Denkart Europa Schriften zur europäischen Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur 25 The series is edited by ASKO EUROPA-STIFTUNG, Saarbrücken and Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen ggmbh.
Tony Venables Piecing together Europe s Citizenship Searching for Cinderella 2.Auflage Nomos
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Table of Content Acknowledgments 11 INTRODUCTION The structure of the book and case for a holistic approach to European citizenship 13 (i) The structure of the book 14 The case for a holistic approach to European citizenship 19 PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR CINDERELLA 37 CHAPTER 1 (i) How did European citizenship emerge in the context of the European Union? The European Treaties and judicial impetus towards European citizenship Progress towards a peoples Europe 45 39 41 CHAPTER 2 How did the concept of European citizenship progress particularly as a result of the Court of Justice of the European Union? 51 CHAPTER 3 European rights to free movement: both extensively practiced and controversial (i) Patterns of free movement of people 65 Costs and benefits of labour mobility 68 CHAPTER 4 Combatting scaremongering about free movement of persons What wide-open challenges for the future of European citizenship? (i) How to make European citizenship more popular? 85 63 73 85 7
Table of Content (iv) (v) How to overcome the reluctance of governments to develop European citizenship? National and European citizenship complement each other, but is the European dimension strong enough? How well does European citizenship fit with the decisionmaking processes of the European Union? If EU citizenship is the basic foundation, could a European citizenship be conceived beyond it, based on shared values? 88 90 93 99 PART TWO: FINDING CINDERELLA 101 CHAPTER 5 Mind the gaps - how can European citizens rights be better enforced and enlarged? 103 (i) Towards better enforcement of European rights 105 CHAPTER 6 Allowing all citizens resident in other Member States to vote in national elections Extending European citizenship to legally resident third country nationals in the Union How can involvement and access of citizens to the European Institutions be made more effective? 111 113 117 (i) From access to documents to freedom of information 120 The transparency register: whitewash or the basis for regulation of lobbying? 122 Towards a reinforced culture of consultation and dialogue? 126 CHAPTER 7 (i) How to develop European citizenship by strengthening transnational participatory and representative democracy? Can the participatory democracy toolbox make the EU less remote from citizens? Are European Citizens Initiatives the answer or the illusion of inclusion? 131 132 135 8
Table of Content How to make elections to the European Parliament more popular and more European? 144 CHAPTER 8 (i) Once found, can Cinderella acquire more universal appeal? Should there be a right to be informed and educated for European citizenship? Could access to EU mobility programmes be more socially balanced and universally accessible? Could there be a civil society movement for European citizenship? 151 153 159 163 CONCLUSION 171 Annexes 175 Guidelines for European Citizens Rights, Involvement and Trust 177 THE A-Z FOR THE ASTUTE CITIZEN 187 BIBLIOGRAPHY 193 9