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.
Estudio
Autor externo
Fernando MENDEZ and Mario MENDEZ
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Tipo de publicación
Ámbito político
- Adopción de legislación por el PE y el Consejo
- Derecho de la UE: sistema jurídico y actos legislativos
- Derecho internacional privado y cooperación judicial en materia civil
- Derecho internacional público
- Espacio de libertad, seguridad y justicia
- Evaluación de la legislación y las políticas en la práctica
Palabra clave
- construcción europea
- DERECHO
- Derecho internacional
- Estado miembro UE
- euroescepticismo
- Europa
- GEOGRAFÍA
- geografía económica
- geografía política
- integración europea
- país tercero
- política de cooperación
- procedimiento electoral y sistema de votación
- referéndum
- Reino Unido
- RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- retirada de la UE
- soberanía nacional
- UNIÓN EUROPEA
- VIDA POLÍTICA