Demos Problems and the European Union: an Exercise in Contextual Democratic Theory
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In an article in the 8th December 2011 issue of the French newspaper Libération, Philippe Cayla, a former French civil servant who is currently President of Euronews Development, invited readers to join him in initiating a European Citizens Initiative which proposes that the European Union adopt a rule that all EU citizens living in another EU state than that of their nationality (so-called ‘second country nationals’ or SCNs) be entitled to vote in the national elections of their state of residence.1 Together with Catriona Seth, Professor in 18th-century French studies at the Université de Lorraine, Cayla also launched a debate on this topic at the European Citizenship Observatory with some rhetorical flourish: Imagine being a law-abiding EU citizen, living in the EU, and having
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