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View article: Constituting European Citizenship
Constituting European Citizenship Open
The constituted legal status of “Union citizenship” has added another democratic static to the European Union's institutional architecture but it is not yet a status of full political empowerment. What is missing is a citizen-centered open…
View article: The Conference on the Future of Europe as a chance for democratic catching up? Towards a citizen-centred perspective on constitutional renewal in the European Union
The Conference on the Future of Europe as a chance for democratic catching up? Towards a citizen-centred perspective on constitutional renewal in the European Union Open
The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) was the first initiative to include citizens in deliberations about the future of European democracy since the failed Constitutional Convention of 2002/03. Although embedded within broader tre…
View article: The Democratic Impact of Strengthening European Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age: The Example of Privacy Protection
The Democratic Impact of Strengthening European Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age: The Example of Privacy Protection Open
In times of digital pervasion of everyday life, the EU has strengthened a normative idea of European fundamental rights, especially by referring to a strong notion of privacy protection. A normative corridor is evolving with the “right to …
View article: Normative Paradoxes of Privacy: Literacy and Choice in Platform Societies
Normative Paradoxes of Privacy: Literacy and Choice in Platform Societies Open
Privacy scholars, advocates, and activists repeatedly emphasize the fact that current measures of privacy protection are insufficient to counter the systemic threats presented by datafication and platformization (van Dijck, de Waal, and Po…
View article: Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model
Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model Open
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experie…
View article: ‘Zombie Urbanism’ and the Search for New Sources of Solidarity
‘Zombie Urbanism’ and the Search for New Sources of Solidarity Open
Let me start with a reminiscence: a few weeks ago, I was sitting in one of my preferred cafés in Paris, le Café Odéon- Théâtre de l’Europe, a vivid place near the Jardin de Luxembourg in the heart of the university quarter. I realised that…
View article: Linking Loose Ends: An Interdisciplinary Privacy and Communication Model
Linking Loose Ends: An Interdisciplinary Privacy and Communication Model Open
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experie…
View article: Shifting Boundaries of Membership: The politicisation of free movement as a challenge for EU citizenship
Shifting Boundaries of Membership: The politicisation of free movement as a challenge for EU citizenship Open
This article discusses freedom of movement under the lens of shifting boundaries of membership and traces the tension between the political and the economic rationale of European integration. It first reflects on the normativity of free mo…
View article: Why the Crisis of European Citizenship is a Crisis of European Democracy
Why the Crisis of European Citizenship is a Crisis of European Democracy Open
European citizens are not yet members of a solidly political Union; they are still primarily members within a Union of states, where national interests are played off against each other. There is a fatal misframing of social conflicts alon…
View article: Introduction: being a citizen in Europe
Introduction: being a citizen in Europe Open
People living in Europe belong to different concentric or overlapping territorially defined communities: neighbourhoods, cities, nation-states and the European Union, and not to forget the world population. They can also belong to various …
View article: EU citizenship and the puzzle of a European political union
EU citizenship and the puzzle of a European political union Open
Chapter 1 relates the debate on EU citizenship to the puzzle of a European political union, and demonstrates how EU citizenship is caught in the ‘double loop’ of contradictions and constraints: the contradiction between the political langu…
View article: Policy Brief - European Political Citizenship 2030: Postdemocracy With Populist Activism Or An Integrated Political And Social Citizenship?
Policy Brief - European Political Citizenship 2030: Postdemocracy With Populist Activism Or An Integrated Political And Social Citizenship? Open
Drawing on research conducted during the project, this policy brief discusses the problems preventing European Union citizens from becoming active political citizens. European citizenship as active political citizenship has been underdevel…