Europe: Project and Process. Citizens, Democracy, Participation

With this book the author wants to convey the relevance of two vectors that are part of the European integration and the EU's personality : the value to be both project and process. The key themes of the book are European supranational democracy ; the participation of the civil society in the EU ; the interaction between European citizens and the European institutions ; education as a key element of active citizenship ; solidarity, participation, and communication "in European"; and the necessary formulation of what Dr. Susana del Rio calls : a new European politics, where a shared responsibility is fundamental to the achievement of a quality European democracy. The author emphasizes that, to restore public credibility in politics, representative democracy has to lead the way, as representative democracy is complemented by participatory democracy.