Bulletin n. 2/2016 | ||
December 2016 | ||
Jouvenat Pierre |
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Federalizing Political Parties in Europe. Towards a Single Party for Each Political Family | ||
in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXIX, Number 2, July 2016 , 2016 | ||
Political parties have a central role to play in animating the public space and in stimulating citizen participation and engagement. European integration, therefore, requires transnational political parties which can mobilize citizens on Europe-wide political issues and contribute to the creation of a European civil society. With the prospect of a federal Union, the progressive establishment of a transnational party system - within which parties operate and compete with each other on a continental scale and are themselves organised according to federal principles - is the indispensable counterpart to institutional reforms. | ||