Citizenship
If democracy stays cast in its national mould, the path ahead may be one of exclusion and disenfranchisement.
Read moreThe Conference on the Future of Europe can kickstart the constitutional development of the EU if citizens are heard.
Read moreBruno Latour emphasises the need for a politics of the living moving from this European-invented space to the tangible space that he calls “dwelling place”.
Read moreGreening citizenship – through gardening practices – offers an opportunity for self-government with radical potential to re-balance the relationship between people and the natural world.
Read moreThe origin and meanings of citizenship – what does it mean today in an era of mass migration and security fears?
Read moreA third option to management by the state or the market is explored: management by autonomous citizens.
Read moreBefore we can tell whether multiculturalism is strengthening or weakening solidarity between the people of a particular society, we need to acknowledge that there were deficits of trust and solidarity long before multicultural policies were adopted. Such policies are potential tools for overcoming the historic deficits in trust and solidarity.
Read moreEurope promotes migration and mobility, but new or ‘different’ Europeans are still stigmatised and marginalised in our societies.
Read moreIn Belgium voting is compulsory. Nevertheless, more and more people choose not to vote.
Read moreIn an unprecedented step towards direct democracy, Finland adopted a national Citizens’ Initiative law in March 2012. Although it has succeeded in opening debates in the national parliament on a number of issues, serious questions remain over whether citizens really have the power to effect change through the tool.
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