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.
Studie
Externe Autor
Fernando MENDEZ and Mario MENDEZ
Über dieses Dokument
Art der Veröffentlichung
Politikbereich
- Annahme von Rechtsvorschriften durch das EP und den Rat
- Bewertung von Rechtsvorschriften und politischen Maßnahmen in der Praxis
- EU-Recht: Rechtsordnung und Rechtsakte
- Internationales Privatrecht und justizielle Zusammenarbeit in Zivilsachen
- Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts
- Völkerrecht
Schlagwortliste
- Austritt aus der EU
- das Vereinigte Königreich
- Drittland
- Europa
- Europäische Integration
- EUROPÄISCHE UNION
- europäisches Einigungswerk
- Euroskepsis
- GEOGRAFIE
- INTERNATIONALE BEZIEHUNGEN
- Internationales Recht
- Mitgliedstaat der EU
- Politik der Zusammenarbeit
- Politische Geografie
- POLITISCHES LEBEN
- RECHT
- Referendum
- Staatssouveränität
- Wahlverfahren
- Wirtschaftsgeografie