The European Union is struggling to maintain democracy and tries to increase the participation among the citizens in Europe. The European Citizens’ Initiative, ECI, is a platform established by the European Commission to allow citizens to propose new legislation. “Water and sanitation are a human right! Water is a public good, not a commodity!” is the first ECI that has met the requirements. Participatory democracy is an effective instrument to raise the democracy in EU but it requires inclusiveness and a serious response from the Commission. More than one year has lapsed since the first ECI was registered and several negotiations has taken place in order to establish a strategy so that water and sanitation become a human right among the member states in the EU. At this point the Commission has no ambition to pass the water and sanitation initiative as a legislative procedure because the requirements contradict the internal market rules. Unfortunately the ECI has not yet achieved its goals even though the Commission has acknowledged that water and sanitation are a human right. The ECI is still under development and so far it does not yet meet the ambition to decrease the democratic deficit within the EU.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-39826 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Thernsjö, Tove |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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