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In the first part of the book, particularly in the chapter on “participatory democracy”, we stressed how the forms and procedures of participatory democracy as foreseen by the EU are not based on the recognition of rights but rather on the institutions’ discretionary powers and we also concluded that rights are granted to citizens on an individual basis exclusively, not in the form of collective action. The development of the European Charter of Active Citizenship, and its experimental application as a tool for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the rights of organized European active citizenship, is precisely aimed at addressing this paradox: the EU is the only institution in Europe that considers the action of organized citizens in the public sphere as part of the governance system, but it lacks a legal framework which recognizes their powers and responsibilities.
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All project documents can be found at http://www.fondaca.org/research-governance-eng/completed-researches/monitoring-and-evaluating-the-state-of-the-rights-to-the-european-active-citizenship.html (last access: 15th December 2008).
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The Civil Society Index is a research and evaluation project on the state of the worldwide civil society, promoted by the international organization Civicus and carried out in more than 60 countries. The ten European countries where this research was implemented were then selected for the project that is analyzed in this chapter as a means to increase the value of and to avail of this common data background. For the Italian report see Moro, Vannini (2008); the complete project can be found in http://www.civicus.org/csi (last access: 15th December 2008).
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It is possible to find further information in the Council of Europe’s webpage on this issue: http://www.coe.int/T/NGO/default_en.asp (last access: 15th December 2008).
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Moro, G. (2012). The Rights of European Active Citizenship and their Practice. In: Citizens in Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1942-6_6
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