Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age.

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The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right

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Building upon the experience of the Convention for the elaboration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and upon the suggestions of the White Paper on European Governance, this article puts forward proposals for a better involvement of the 'civil society' in the system of the European Union. It offers a general diagnosis of the misunderstandings about the notion of 'civil society' and the relationship of representative democracy to participatory democracy. It then draws some lessons from the experiment in deliberative democracy which led to the drafting of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Finally, it focuses on the contribution the organisation of the civil society can make to improved governance in the EU. Altogether, the proposals presented tend to encourage a better structuration of the actors of civil society. Such a structuration, the article concludes, although it is usually seen with suspicion even by those whom it would most benefit, must be seen instead as a condition for the effective exercise of whichever participatory rights might be granted to civil society organisations.

Europe in Search of Its Civil Society

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i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ii ABBREVIATIONS vi 1 Democratic EU: From Representation to Participation 1 1.

Gautier Busschaert

Papers

Participatory democracy in the European Union : a civil perspective

2022/10 Labour Tribunal of Brussels decides that Deliveroo riders are self-employed workers and not employees (BE)

2022/21 The right to collective action recognised by the European Social Charter has no direct effect says the Belgian Supreme Court (BE)

2022/35 The habitual place of work: assessed through quantitative and qualitative criteria (BE)

2023/4 Neutrality policy of City of Brussels not found discriminatory (BE)