The conference will be an opportunity to assess one of the crucial challenges to European integration: ensuring that European citizens can identify with their institutions through instruments guaranteeing decision-making processes based on transparency and participatory democracy. This means that fully applying the principle of European citizenship, in its widest sense, is vital to achieving full European democracy and a necessary condition for the progress of European integration.<\/P>
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Opening address and speeches<\/STRONG><\/P> The opening address by Vincenzo Grassi, the Foreign Ministry\u2019s Director General for European Integration, will focus on \u201cEuropean Citizenship and European Democracy, from Rome to Lisbon: citizens\u2019 participation as a decisive challenge for the success of European integration\u201d. <\/P> The programme also includes speeches on the following topics<\/STRONG>: <\/P> – \u201cFreedom, Security and Justice: pillars for the construction of European democracy\u201d, by Roberta Angelilli, Vice-President of the European Parliament<\/P> – \u201cThe Role of the European Parliament after the Lisbon Treaty: the position one year before the European elections in 2014\u201d, by Carlo Casini, Chair of the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Constitutional Affairs<\/P> – \u201cTowards a European Political Space? The challenge of citizens\u2019 participation: institutional innovation and political, economic and social initiatives\u201d, by Roberto Gualtieri, from the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Constitutional Affairs<\/P> – \u201cThe New Rules Governing Italy\u2019s Participation in Creating and Implementing the EU\u2019s Regulations and Policies. Law 234\/2012: enhanced democratic participation and greater effectiveness\u201d, by Roberto Adam, Head of the Department for European Policies at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office<\/P> – \u201cThe Community Method and Citizens\u2019 Participation. What is the future for democratic governance in the European Union?\u201d, by Pasquale Ferrara, Secretary General of the European University Institute in Florence.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conference will be an opportunity to assess one of the crucial challenges to European integration: ensuring that European citizens can identify with their institutions through instruments guaranteeing decision-making processes based on transparency and participatory democracy. This means that fully applying the principle of European citizenship, in its widest sense, is vital to achieving full […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-16909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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