Euroculture: Political and Legal Perspectives Assignment I
Ziya Mert Karakaş
The EU is a complex supranational entity. It is not a state or a federation and it is difficult to classify. So are the questions whether the Union has attributes of each, and if yes, what are them. The democracy, in the modern times, is a fundamental part of the state functioning and is necessary for the public to involve themselves in the political decision-making. As EU is not a state nor has it a definable demos, can it be measured against other existing forms of "Liberal Democracies"?1. There is an assured sense of EU 's remoteness from the private lives in this question. But on the contrary, EU is heavily active in the daily-life of its citizens and on their …show more content…
It basically allows a possibility to call on the Commission for new policy proposals if the citizens requesting it amounts to one million or more. While the innovation behind this idea is that the solution has to go beyond the institutional level, it may not amount to a lot of change because EU citizens are hardly connected with EU. The EU policy process is technocratic and requires insider-knowledge, which means that it prevents citizens from easily identifying political preferences7. Therefore it is imperative to inform the public in a appropriate manner not only about the politics at the EU level, but also how their political view is an asset to Europe, and that voting is a democratic responsibility of a citizen. Also, the concept of European citizenship should be fortified with an European identity of a collective sense and not an oppressive
Ziya Mert Karakaş
The EU is a complex supranational entity. It is not a state or a federation and it is difficult to classify. So are the questions whether the Union has attributes of each, and if yes, what are them. The democracy, in the modern times, is a fundamental part of the state functioning and is necessary for the public to involve themselves in the political decision-making. As EU is not a state nor has it a definable demos, can it be measured against other existing forms of "Liberal Democracies"?1. There is an assured sense of EU 's remoteness from the private lives in this question. But on the contrary, EU is heavily active in the daily-life of its citizens and on their …show more content…
It basically allows a possibility to call on the Commission for new policy proposals if the citizens requesting it amounts to one million or more. While the innovation behind this idea is that the solution has to go beyond the institutional level, it may not amount to a lot of change because EU citizens are hardly connected with EU. The EU policy process is technocratic and requires insider-knowledge, which means that it prevents citizens from easily identifying political preferences7. Therefore it is imperative to inform the public in a appropriate manner not only about the politics at the EU level, but also how their political view is an asset to Europe, and that voting is a democratic responsibility of a citizen. Also, the concept of European citizenship should be fortified with an European identity of a collective sense and not an oppressive