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A victory for the Citizens’ Initiative?
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On 30 November, the AFCO Committee voted on the regulation for the Citizens’ Initiative. Following the recommendations issued by the AFCO rapporteurs on the Citizens’ Initiative (MEPs Alain Lamassoure from EPP and Zita Gurmai from S & D),...
15 July Conference on ‘Equality and Diversity in Europe: Tackling Multiple Discrimination against Migrants’
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On 15 July 2010, the Centre for Parliamentary Studies organised a symposium in Brussels entitled ‘Equality and Diversity in Europe: Tackling Multiple Discrimination against Migrants’. The event was chaired by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (d...
Kosovo – Breaking the Isolation
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On 29 June 2010, the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the European Stability Initiative (ESI) jointly presented a film as well as a panel debate in Brussels which was entitled ‘Kosovo – Breaking the Isolation’. The event was chaired by...
A two way conversation with European citizens?
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The ‘no – votes’ in France and the Netherlands sparked realisation of the lack of faith shown in the EU institutions and a need to reduce the democratic deficit. The direct outcome of this concern was Plan D denoting Democracy, Dialogue, and De...
Lobbying made transparent and accessible for everybody?
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After the heated debate and consultations on the European Transparency Initiative (ETI) we are now in the phase of consultations on its prominent element - the Code of Conduct for interest representatives (consultations close on 15/02/2008). The draf...
Why are there transitional arrangements for Romanian and Bulgarian workers?
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ECAS presented on 15 January the latest of the series of reports on the free movement. See the report and the official press release. Well before one can say that mobility becomes a piece of cake for EU-25, there comes 2007 enlargement and things get...
The concluding conference on Plan D Projects – quite an informal meeting in the Charlemagne building
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The event organised by the European Commission to wrap up the plan D projects was finally not so formal and official an affair as might have been thought from the programme. This was due to Pat Cox as a quite brilliant moderator drawing out people’...
Time is ticking before the next European elections
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How to explain that since 1979 and the first European elections the powers of the European Parliament have increased but voter participation has gone down to reach below 50% at the 2004 elections? ECAS believes that this does not reflect general di...
ECAS blog is started
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Beginning of a European public sphere? new exciting tool of communication? the platform to get the debate about Europe going? We jump in! In this blog we would like especially to discuss EU communication policy and the citizens’ participation m...
