Referendums on EU Matters
This study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament. It analyses the political and legal dynamics behind referendums on EU-related matters. It argues that we have entered a period of increasing political uncertainty with regard to the European project and that this new political configuration will both affect and be affected by the politics of EU-related referendums. Such referendums have long been a risky endeavour and this has been accentuated in the wake of the Great Recession with its negative ramifications for public opinion in the European Union. It is clear that referendums on EU matters are here to stay and will continue to be central to the EU’s future as they are deployed to determine the number of Member States within the EU, its geographical reach, its constitutional evolution and adherence to EU policies. Only now they have become an even riskier endeavour.
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Auteur externe
Fernando MENDEZ and Mario MENDEZ
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Domaine politique
- Adoption de la législation par le Parlement européen et le Conseil
- Droit international privé et coopération judiciaire en matière civile
- Droit international public
- Espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice
- Législation de l''Union: système et actes juridiques
- Évaluation du droit et des mesures politiques dans la pratique
Mot-clé
- construction européenne
- DROIT
- droit international
- Europe
- euroscepticisme
- GÉOGRAPHIE
- géographie politique
- géographie économique
- intégration européenne
- pays tiers
- politique de coopération
- procédure électorale et vote
- RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- retrait de l’UE
- Royaume-Uni
- référendum
- souveraineté nationale
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- VIE POLITIQUE
- État membre UE