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Implementing Lisbon: a critical appraisal of the Citizens’ Initiative

Jun 28, 2010

Corina Stratulat

Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme

Janis A. Emmanouilidis

Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Studies

LISBON TREATY

This Policy Brief by Janis A. Emmanouilidis and Corina Stratulat explains in detail how the Citizens’ Initiative should work in practice, and discusses whether it will have the desired effect in bringing citizens closer to the workings of the EU.

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